On 2 May 1998, Dave Mielke wrote:
> I have the following:
>
> System: Red Hat Linux 5.0 (kernel 2.0.32)
> VideoCard: STB VELOCITY 128 MULTIMEDIA ACCELERATOR 4MB AGP Bus
> Monitor: DIMENSION XPS D233
>
> I am somewhat illiterate when it comes to X Server maintenance, but I
> know that I am not getting the most out of my hardware. It would appear
> that I have something called MetroX, that it only supports 16 colours,
> and that it only supports very low resolutions. I think I should be
> able to get 15-bit colour with a resolution of 1280x1024.
>
> Do any of you know what I need to do? Is it as simple as picking up the
> right driver? If so, which one, and from where? Whenever I use configX
> to select a driver, the only one which works is "IBM VGA"; other
> selections cause linkage errors when the server starts up. None of the
> available selections make any mention of AGP.
download the newest XFree86 RPMS from ftp.redhat.com and upgrade using
rpm; the new XFree supports the Velocity 128 AGP (i'm using it as i
type...). use the SVGA server.
-matt
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