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Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:42:12 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
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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.
> >
> > So, I'd say, get another vid. card.
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> Yeah, that seemed to be the consensus on Usenet as well. :-(
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> 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.
It just automagically disables the on-board video. So it's real easy to do
that.
Tom
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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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| (...) 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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