On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> On 22 Aug 2008, at 10:34 pm, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
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> Institutions and individuals in tight financial situations or in less
>> technically advanced areas continue to use Alphas because they
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's the list of failed packages, as well as
> <
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> (which is a lot more informative than I expected it to be, really). And
> then there's the need for someone to
I can give partial answers to two of your questions, Steve, though neither
is going to be enough to create an argument to counter your own conclusions.
Institutions and individuals in tight financial situations or in less
technically advanced areas continue to use Alphas because they are what is
a
I should perhaps keep quiet since I'm not capable of taking on this task
myself. However, I think this point needs to be considered even if future
Alpha support is still to be frozen and dropped:
The Microsoft-Intel steamroller has literally flattened the microcomputer
field into one of dangerous
Yes, I'm back again.
I can get the S3 Trio64 to operate using the Xorg vga driver, but only
in monochrome mode.
In theory, it should work with the fbdev and vesa drivers, but I've
had no success with either one. The vesa driver says "Screen(s) found,
but none have a usable configuration." This re
On 11/6/07, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In http://xfree.org/3.3.6/MGA.html , dated December 1998, the support
> for the Matrox is described; in one of the underlying pages:
>
> * Makes extensive use of the graphics accelerator. This server is very
> well accelerated, and is one of
/5/07, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon 05 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
> > On 11/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Boring spending so much time with that configuration issue, I bought 2
> > > used mat
On 11/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Gary,
>
> I had the same problem wirh my two Alphaserver 4100 and the trio video
> card.
>
> It was working fine in RedHat 7, but never in debian.
>
> Boring spending so much time with that configuration issue, I bought 2
> used matro
On 11/4/07, James Andrewartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
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> In which case you should look at /etc/inittab and add (or uncomment) some
> lines like the following:
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> 2:23:respaw
On 11/4/07, Gianluca Bonetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You should use s3 driver, s3virge driver is for S3 Virge, not S3 Trio.
> Xorg -configure will create automagically a file for your needs.
> If it doesn't work with that file, then it is either a bug in the
> driver, or an unsupported card (s
Thanks for the hints. Unfortunately, without documentation on the
setup of the s3 driver, I'm not sure that it isn't just my error that
keeps it from working. That makes me reluctant to report my problems
as a bug or defect in the software. In fact, I'm still not sure
whether I should be using s3 o
I have a Personal Workstation 433au with an S3 86c764/765 (Trio
32/64/64+) graphics card in it. This works with Windows and with
OpenVMS just fine. I assume it was working with Tru64 UNIX as well, as
that is what was installed when I obtained this box.
However, I can't find a suitable X driver or
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