Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-17 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tors 16 apr. 2020 kl 18:24 skrev Paolo Aglialoro : > Thanks Janne for the tech insight. > So, but for routerboards/CLI boxen, considering that this recent move > hinders GUI for most P3s, the really viable ones remain P3s/K7s with > different graphics boards (mostly desktop/tower) and early P4

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-16 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Thanks Janne for the tech insight. So, but for routerboards/CLI boxen, considering that this recent move hinders GUI for most P3s, the really viable ones remain P3s/K7s with different graphics boards (mostly desktop/tower) and early P4s without em64t. For all the following stuff there's no reason

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Janne Johansson
Den ons 15 apr. 2020 kl 23:29 skrev Paolo Aglialoro : > Is this a hint that soon i386 architecture will be deprecated? > Considering that supported hw (at least graphics) is going more and more to > overlap with amd64, at the very end i386 would remain only for some > routerboards. > i386 has see

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread lists
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:26:44 +0200 Paolo Aglialoro > Thank you for the explanation, Otto. > > Is this a hint that soon i386 architecture will be deprecated? Hello Paolo, Considering that it's worth reading the reply without misinterpreting anything, it is here quoting this again: "What other OS m

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Ciao Paolo, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.la > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.so/usr/X11R6/man/man4/s3.4 > /usr/X11R6/

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Thank you for the explanation, Otto. Is this a hint that soon i386 architecture will be deprecated? Considering that supported hw (at least graphics) is going more and more to overlap with amd64, at the very end i386 would remain only for some routerboards. On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:14 PM Otto Mo

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:55:04PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hello, > > I read from the 6.5 to 6.6 upgrade guide that the following files: > > > */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge

S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, I read from the 6.5 to 6.6 upgrade guide that the following files: */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.la /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.so/usr/