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- From: davidre@ifi.uio.no (David Eric Reksten)
- Subject: Xconfig & Trident - The Solution?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.103853.20328@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: davidre@ifi.uio.no (David Eric Reksten)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:38:53 GMT
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- Originator: davidre@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no
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- I have followed the thread concerning Linux and the Trident 8900C
- videodriver with great interest. I have a tvga8900 myself, but I have
- so far not succeeded in making it cooperate with X11. I read somewhere
- that a TVGA bios of 4.0 or newer was needed, but I have so far not
- seen any confirmation on this fact.
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- My bios is reported to be C3.0, and hence apparently not the one that
- works. Could ANYONE please tell me if this is a fact, or just rumors?
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- There also appears to be some trident-files at tsx-11.mit.edu in
- /pub/linux/packages/X11/devel/. I have not looked at these files yet,
- but perhaps there is a solution mentioned there...
-
- If it now appeared that I (and others, too, I suppose) would have to
- upgrade to v4.0 to make X work, would anyone please tell me if this is
- possible/feasible? What would it cost? Or should we go out and buy a
- Tseng ET4000???
-
- Comments received with gratitude.
-
- BTW: Thanks, Mr. Torvalds, for a superb operating system!
- --
- .david, Ipsa sua melior fama
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- davidre@ifi.uio.no
- David E.Reksten, Univ. of Oslo, dept. of informatics, Norway
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