On Wednesday 22 November 2000 18:32, you wrote: > 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.
well, thanks.. the problem is how to get X running with potato? i don't want to tell my father to install woody. i guess he will compile xfree 4 on his own if there is no other solution. maybe this will break a lot of things (dependencies) so i don't have a good fealing about this.. :( isn't there ANY way in xfree 3(!) to get a not supported card to work?? even if it runs in svga compatible mode with only 4mb of detected video ram, i wouldn;t care!! but it has to work! it would be really a shame if it's not possible. and do you think it is possible to compile xfree 4 into potato without huge problems? i hope somebody can help me. i don't want to believe, that debian is not able to handle this situation :((( Spark > > 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
