On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 16:36, Pixel wrote: > "Florent BERANGER"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a DELL Latitude CPI A366XT laptop and the default > > install have installed XF86_SVGA 3.3.6. > > I've changed it with Drakconf and Xfree 4.2.1 works fine. > > Why install XF86_SVGA by default ? > > neomagic driver was distrusted. Changing this (since there doesn't > seem to be any good reason to keep this): > > ---------------------------- > revision 1.20 > date: 2002/09/10 15:33:08; author: prigaux; state: Exp; lines: +1 -3 > do not prefer_xf3 for "NeoMagic (laptop/notebook)" since: > - long ago it was decided to distrust driver "neomagic" together with Riva's, SiS, >GeForce > - in 09/2001 (XFree 4.1.0), it was decided to keep distrusting driver "neomagic" > - Cosmic Flo says driver "neomagic" works (on card Neomagic Corporation|[MagicGraph >256AV]) > ----------------------------
Seconded, btw - this laptop has the same chip and X 4.2.x works perfectly. -- adamw
