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| (...) I had beaucoup XFree86 problems with the #9 Imagine 128 II video card -- it turns out that the ISA card is supported, but not the PCI card. Guess which one I have! >:-P You might find a similar incompatability with the Trio3D... Fortunately, I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| I work for IBM in the Netfinity Server line, and my understanding is the S3 Trio 3d card doesn't work consistently with Xfree. Of course that's the chipset we use on a few of our systems. We 'support' Linux on the NF line and my main Linux guru (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Yeah, that seemed to be the consensus on Usenet as well. :-( This particular machine is an IBM 300PL. But can you just (safely) plop another video card into a machine like this with an onboard integrated video system?? If so, then, heck, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) You need to find the docs to turn off the onboard video, but yeah, it should be eminently possible. (...) Does it have AGP? I'm partial to Matrox, especially since they started working with the open-source community to procide drivers instead (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FM8xJr.CyL@lugnet.com... (...) S3 (...) put (...) I (...) It just automagically disables the on-board video. So it's real easy to do that. Tom (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I use Matrox G200 with X windows, and it works just fine. Dunno about G400, though. Fredrik (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Oh, BTW, that worked great -- thanks for the help. I put in an ATI XPERT98 card (8MB, PCI, 3D Rage Pro chipset) and it FLIES, even at 1600x1200x16bit. Very happy! --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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