Re: Compaq AVGA support

Rodney <me@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:18:23 +0200, Tim Lindner wrote:

I have a old Compaq 486 DX4-100 Notebook, on which I installed Slackware
11 recently. Only Xorg makes problems.

I can't say specifically for that laptop, however, the DSL distro is made
to run on old equipment like that. Live CD is slightly less than 50MB
download and that would let you test it out to see it it would work for
your needs. Older kernel and binaries but very usable and even relatively
fast if you have 128MB and use the "toram" boot option. I haven't tried it
on less than P166. If you normally run slack, you'll be able to figure out
a few of the "quirks" that trip up newbies.

AVGA was unusual enough that there was nobody who really cared about
keeping it working with X. I had a Compaq Concerto (and wrote a pen
driver for it at one time) and spent some time trying to figure out
what had changed in XFree86 after the last version for which it
worked, and was never able to pinpoint the crucial change. AFAIK,
nobody else has ever even tried.
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