On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jay Estabrook wrote: > It should be better than that; I went through 2.2.17-pre and > 2.4.0-test6-pre and fixed a few small problems that made some of the > others work as well; Rage128 was one that I fixed, along with > Permedia2. More are available under 2.4.x, including nVidia and 3Dfx > which worked OOTB on Alpha, but a number were not checked or didn't > work - Cirrus, SiS, Mach64.
This is very good news! Thank you for clarifying that. The docs I found were pretty antiquated. > I believe there was working support for 3Dfx in 3.3.6, though it > wasn't built by default on Alpha even though it did work. Did it? I'm still running an ancient S3 card in mine, so I didn't know whether or not to recommend enabling it for Alpha for Debian. I seemed to recall some issues with it, but that could've been with a prior X release. > But, it sounded as if the 1000A SRM console did work OK with the > Voodoo3, which is the first hurdle that must be cleared. Whether > it would work with others, such as nVidia or the like, is unclear; > it must be tried to find out. Using the latest SRM console available > for the 1000A is the best bet, but I'm almost certain (at least) the > later nVidia cards would not work, as the BIOS emulator only recently > (on the EV6 platforms at least) became able to run their code... :-\ Yeah, I noted that SRM seemed ok with with it, which puts the kernel in focus as the next "let's see if this is the problem" step of diagnosing their situation. C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
