Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman_at_dman13.dyndns.org)
Date: 10/31/03

  • Next message: Deryk Barker: "Re: Sound processing" 
    Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:35:13 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    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 <river@bigriver.net>: 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: dman@dman13.dyndns.org



    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Deryk Barker: "Re: Sound processing"

    Relevant Pages