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XF4.0.1 support for digital video cards?

XF4.0.1 support for digital video cards?

Post by Stephen R. Anders » Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:00:00



What work is currently going on that might provide (kernel and)
XFree86 support for the new generation of video cards, cards that
support digital displays? I'm hoping to get a 3dfx voodoo4 (the
voodoo5 seems like overkill) or perhaps an ATI radeon, if they ever
come out with the PCI version, for my B&W G3. I have a nice digital
display that's going to waste as far as linux/PPC is concerned....

I can't find anything in the XF4.0.1 sources that goes beyond the
voodoo3 (or that recognizes the radeon at all),  but those sources are
already kind of old by now. Is there hope that cards supporting the
new generation of displays will get linux/PPC support?

--Stephen R. Anderson
Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science (Chair)
Yale University
Box 208236 Yale Station
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8236
Phone: (203) 432-2456

http://www.ling.yale.edu/~anderson/

 
 
 
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XF4.0.1 support for digital video cards?

Post by michael s. jesso » Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:00:00


Found the cause of the low refresh rate.  There was one "1024x786" mode
line that had the rate set at 65.  I bumped it to 75 and all is well.
Tho' why it chose the slowest out of all the modes is unknown to me,
since it is supposed to be smart enought to select an optimal setting,
no?  Anywa, I am happy that I no longer get headaches at my computer.
:)

 
 
 
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Hello.  I'm trying to install xfree86 4.0.1 on my g3 333 powerbook
(lombard).  I've managed destroying my root filesystem three times.
Right now I have a fresh install of linuxppc2000, and I use BootX as my
boot manager.  I've partition a 50 meg apple HFS partition for yaboot in
the future.  Does anyone here have a simple step-by-step how-to on
installing xfree 4.0.1 on the lombards?  

I'm hoping on getting some accelerated x on my laptop, right now x isn't
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