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- From: steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!rama.demon.co.uk!steve
- Subject: Re: Xconfig & Trident - The Solution?
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- References: <1992Nov10.103853.20328@ifi.uio.no>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:08:56 +0000
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- In article <1992Nov10.103853.20328@ifi.uio.no> davidre@ifi.uio.no writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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?
- >
-
- I just rebooted my machine, and at the top of the screen it displayed :-
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- TRIDENT TVGA BIOS C3.0
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- Now, Xfree86 works fine on my machine (apart from not restoring the text
- mode on exit), so I leave you to draw your own conclusions....
-
- Steve
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