El Miércoles, 3 de Agosto de 2005 16:00, Robert W. Brown escribió: > Hello and thank you for the reponse, Ender, > > It seems I have some options, but need help selecting from them. I > could change to the unstable release if this would help. Alternatively, > I could buy a new video card (if I knew what to buy and where to find > it). Also, I could remove all of the Debian X-window software and try > to install all of the X11R6 RPM packages from my old SuSE 7.1 distribution > that runs X-windows adequately with my existing S3 graphics board. > > The purchase of a new graphics card for this Alpha machine would be fine. > In fact, I have a Matrox G450 card that I bought recently, thinking it > would work on this machine, but it does not work with Debian or the SuSE > 7.1 distribution. > > I would hate to be limited to using this machine in graphics mode only > with the old SuSE software and upgrading the SuSE packages would > probably not be worthwhile.
Hello, Robert. Sorry if you find this harsh, but please write to the
bug
address, as the entire X Strike Force can read the message and reply. :-)
I do not understand why this happens. Also, Matrox is accepted (in
theory) in
Alpha, as it is listed in the drivers:
ati, cirrus, glint, mga, nv, rendition, s3, s3virge, savage, siliconmotion,
tdfx, tga, vga
Please send a message to [email protected], maybe putting
debian-x in Cc:, and pointing to the bug report. There are several dedicated
people (namely Jay Eastabrook) that will debug your problem properly.
And forget your idea of going back to SuSE -- we love to keep users in
our
OS.
Many thanks,
Ender.
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Network engineer
Debian Developer
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