I had a machine with this card as well. At the time I looked, the documentation on xfree86.org said that this card is supported in the developement version of X 4.?.?, but not currently supported in the official release, but will be in the next official release.
Gerry On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > Hello list! > > i recently helped my father to install debian (potato r0) on his box. > everything was fine, but X is a problem. i have to say this was ever a > problem since he upgraded his graphic card to a hercules 3d prophet which is > using the geforce MX chipset. > he tried mandrake before but when it comes to auto detection, it damages the > display (not physically of course) so i can't even use the textmode anymore. > this is really ugly... > now with debian there is a similar problem. i used XF86Setup. in "cards", i > used the details, not one of the list and left everything on probing. > after starting the x server, everything was foobared again... > i know, that the geforce MX ist NOT supported with xfree 3 but i still think > it should be possible to run x in a kind of compatiblity mode isn't it?? > i don't care about all the fancy geforce features (in fact my father's > favorite game is nethack, so he's not in a hurry to install x, but it would > be really nice to show him the great new kde2 desktop!), but it should be > able to render 1024*768 with 32 bit colors in a reasonable speed. > what does i have to do exactly to make this work? > btw, it already worked using the VGA16 server and a generic vga driver. > but 640*480 is not a sollution ;) > i hope i can show him now how great the debian support is.. :)) > > -Daniel > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
