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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Xwindows
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.203348.14997@colorado.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 20:33:48 GMT
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- In article <714569736.F00062@remote.halcyon.com> Charlie.Lee@f42.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Lee) writes:
- >Does anyone have any idea if X11 can be made to run on my Trident SVGA
- >card? It has 1 meg and the 8900A chip. When I try running X11, I
-
- Yes, it can. Either write a driver from scratch or debug the
- Trident 8900 driver floating around. Most of the commercial
- 8900 drivers only work with an 8900C, so even there you may be
- SOL.
-
- >just get a blank screen. The keyboard seems to still be active. I
- >haven't gotten around to fiddling with the clock values yet.
-
- Won't make a difference - if you RTFM, you'll find that Tseng ET3000/4000,
- Paradise PVGA1, and Genoa chips are supported. Note that the Trident is
- absent from that list.
-
- If you want windows now, either buy a generic TSENG ET4000 based board,
- or get MGR, which will work on stock EGA/VGA machines, and there is
- a Trident driver for it.
-
-
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-