On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 01:37, Gonzalix le Druide wrote:
> Thanks, but right now I have no money to buy another card :-((
Yeah, I know what you mean. I got lucky and managed to score a free Matrox
Millennium II which my computer assembler was going to throw out :-)
> So, I must make it work... meanwhile
IIRC, the best I could achieve with that card was 640x480 at 256 Colours. It
just refused to go any higher.
> I remember that installing the FBDev it worked pretty well.
I remember running through Caldera and Mandrake installations, both of which
employ framebuffer graphics, with the card. It seems to handle the
framebuffer well, but not XFree.
> Any ideas, please ?
>
> G le D
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Your system specs are exactly what I had when I tried Mandrake 7.0 (with
> > XFree 3.3.x) in early 2000. I did heaps of research on that same card in
> > an attempt to get it working well, and concluded that it was no good for
> > XFree 3.3.x. I switched my card to a Matrox Millennium II and I've been
> > happy ever since.
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:37, Gonzalix le Druide wrote:
> > > Hi All!!
> > >
> > > Please help me: I installed LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM,
> > > Video Card Trident 975 agp 4 Mb.
> > >
> > > I've probed Xconfigurator, xf86cfg and xf86config.
> > >
> > > I was trying to find some command "XFree86Setup" or something like that
> > > I don't remember.
> > >
> > > I was trying to install XFree 3.3.6, but I couldn't found the server.
> > >
> > > I will appreciate any ideas.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
