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- From: tgcpwd@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: OAK 256k VGA card
- Message-ID: <5356@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:22:08 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.163711.713@meiko.com>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Sep9.163711.713@meiko.com> owen@meiko.co.uk writes:
- >Has anybody any experience of using this card with Linux?
- >Uses the OTI-037 chipset with VGA BIOS 2.15-35.
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- I had the Oak 512k, and it was proven beyond doubt that you can't do
- Linux' X with it. Of course plain alpha numeric stuff will work, but
- that will hardly be surprising.
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- It was suggested that the new Xfree86 will be so modular that it may
- well be easy to add a new videocard. Now that would be surprising.
-
- Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst
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