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Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:28:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Tom Boucher writes:
> 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.
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> We 'support' Linux on the NF line and my main Linux guru always says to put
> in a third party card and no &*$# with it. he's one of the guys that
> helped design that 256 Linux cluster up in New York State somewhere, so I
> trust him.
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> So, I'd say, get another vid. card.
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, that's what I'll prolly go ahead an do.
I have a NEC P1150 that I can use with this machine, so the viddy card has
be able to do at 1600x1200 at 16 bit, or 32 bit given enough memory.
Any video card recommendations/good experiences for RHL 6.1? I don't need
blazing 3D speed or anything (games not important on this machine) but fast
block-copies for moving/scrolling windows would really be nice.
--Todd
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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)
| | | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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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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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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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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