On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:49:24AM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:24:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:51PM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | > | I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running | > | Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get | > | Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? | > | > Does that card support the VESA interface? If so, use the 'vesafb' | > driver in the kernel and the 'FBDev' driver in X. It's really simple | > to configure, actually. (I use that setup because it's a lot simpler | > than messing around with X options) | | Hi D. I sent this directly to you since the reply I sent to Debian User | has not shown up yet.
You sent it off-list, that's why. BTW, your email address is wrong: host bigriver.net.mail1.psmtp.com[12.158.34.245] said: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command) | I read somewhere that the vesafb module is only | available in the 2.4.18 source. True? No. It is in all 2.4.x kernels I've used. You might be able to compile it as a module, or just use boot-time configuration options, but I've never had any luck with that. I started with the kernel-source package, copied the configuration from my current kernel, then included vesafb in the kernel. ('Y' instead of 'M' or 'N') Then, for 1280x1024x16 I put "video=vesa vga=0x31A" on the kernel's command line. (the details for how to do that depend on what boot loader you use) HTH, -D -- \\begin{humor} Disclaimer: If I receive a message from you, you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on USENET or the WWW. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message \\end{humor} www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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