On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:56:50AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:34:56AM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > > Because this is not Irix and X support is not as good as it is there. > > Preliminary 24bpp support is in xfree86 cvs. Patches welcome. > > No need for the attitude, I was just asking if I'd somehow Not a matter of attitude. It's just that X on the Indy is very far from being as useful under Linux than it is under Irix.
> misconfigured something or needed a kernel tweak like I did just > to get X to run on my card. Obviously some code for Linux on > Indys still has rough edges, not a problem. I'd have thought > XFree86 4.2.0 was in Debian unstable by now, but I guess that's > not the case. ISTR seeing a log of XFree86 4.1.199 somewhere > (CVS pre 4.2.0) with 24-bit support.. so do you still need CVS > or will 4.2.0 suffice? 4.2.0 is sufficient, but there are other problems, like non functional GLX extension in 4.2.0. -- Guido
