My new laptop uses an S3/Savage. The 4.3 drivers (which are OpenSource) do not seem to suport 3D acceleration (or MPEG, but that's a small issue). The there...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:36:03 -0000, "Justin Alexander" ... Well, that's one of the reasons why XFree 4.3 is that much better than 4.1! It supports TrueType...
I woulf LOVE to change the video chip. But it's a laptop (T23) and to the best of my knoledge there is no way to swap that out. I meen I'm sure I could do it,...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:24:06 -0000, "Justin Alexander" ... Yes, my bad. You did say that in your original post but it didn't sink in :( -- G. Stewart --...
Good info to know. Thanx. I deapend my research (ie RTFM) and found that the Savage series is utterly unsuported by the wonderfull folks at VIA/S3 (oh for the...
Oh in the intrest of completness 4.3 seems to suport XRender. Which is good news for those of us who like *fonts*! (also nice for that day long in the future...
hi all, i have installed redhat linux 9 on my PC.... the following is the config i think the problems lies in which for my PC: Intel 845 graphics card with...
... Try pressing control, alt, and + (on the numpad) at the same time. Sometimes Xwindows can be set up with multiple resolutions, and I'm not sure how the...
The recent thread about vid chips and XFree makes me wonder--now that Slack has officially changed to xorg, what are most people doing? I changed over a few...
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:40:27 -0400 ... I switched my main desktop a couple of months back when Dropline 2.6.0 was released as it went with Xorg. So far so good....
... ~Supposedly~ there have been a few improvements in the latest release of XORG. In FreeBSD, when I changed from XFree to Xorg, the file names remained the...
Hey everyone, Due to the current discussion about XFree and X.org, etc.; I was wondering...How does one *know* exactly if one is, or is not, actually receiving...
... Ed, surely you jest. In the "Display" Subsection is a Modes line where you place your resolutions, eg., "1280x1024" "1024x768", and so on. the first...
... I installed Fedora Core 2 on a spare HD last week with the X.org rpms. It doesn't like my Radwon 7000 and kept locking up after a while. But then, If I...
Hi I've installed Slackware 9.1 on a friends computer and setup some bash scripts to rsync some stuff. However, i don't seem to have installed the 'mail'...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:52:26 -0000 ... I suggest that you pass a glance over this: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README Its got a lot of...
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:08:18 -0700 ... In some cases, if the video card has the avaialble ram to display a res, yet the monitor is set at a freq which cannot...
OK, this is really strange. Dunno if I posted it to this list or not, but I've been having trouble with my WD 7200RPM 80g hard drive, every other time or so I...
... Are you running ext2? If so, use tune2fs -j to move to ext3. It will then validate the journal transactions and won't need to fsck the drive each time....
... Some hardware has problems "letting go" (Creative SBLive! 1st revision, some Winmodems, cheap NICs), i.e. allowing your system to go into stand ...
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:45:49 +0100 ... If you want know if GLX and DRI are working, try using xdpyinfo. Here's a sample output from my machine (Slackware 9.1),...
... Thanks Bob! Here are the results on my box: ............................. xdpyinfo | egrep 'GL|DRI' GLX SGI-GLX ............................. ( no...
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:42:07 -0000 ... Well, it's going to be pretty slow on PCI, I'm afraid, but you can probably get DRI working by adding the following to...
... probably ... /etc/X11/XF86Config... ... GadZooks!!! I added a line to load 'dri', and then added the section at the end, as per your suggestion. Now I...
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:43:32 -0000 ... Your numbers look about right for your hardware now. ... OK -- I'm guessing a bit here -- but I think some of the...
... more ... of DRI, ... the older ... that then ... check the ... that I don't ... please! ... Well....that first set of numbers I posted, with the 17fps ...
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