Hi,
Not sure to whom this mail was addressed. Me, though, have had a look at the
link referenced. I have never before heard about "Geode-based Single-Board
Computers". Now, that sounds just like a uP board and not a fullfledged OS
set up. The text body (too big for me to want to digest), however, indicates that
it should work as a Linux distribution by:
a) Oriented to RedHat Linux 7.2 (thats where the rpm lacks for other distributions).
b) Set up LILO config by at least 'append="video=vesa"'
c) A lot of XF86Config examples to cope with this "Geode". Is it
a distribution ? The text body indicates so, why should we else set up LILO and
XF86Config.
Hans.
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At 20:53 2002-12-22 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>can you have a look at the following link?
>http://www.larwe.com/technical/geode_linux.html
>
>here is a pharagraph from it:
>
>The best match I have found so far is the XF86_SVGA server, version 3.3.6a.
>If you install Red Hat 7.2 and select Geode, this server will be installed
>but it will _NOT_ be enabled! The Red Hat install process by default links
>/etc/X11R6/bin/X to /etc/X11R6/bin/XFree86, which is the XFree86 4.1.0
>"mega-wrapper". XFree86 4.x does not presently work with the CS5530.
>Although the majority of the required driver support is apparently present
>in the Cyrix MediaGX driver, this code only works on ISA systems (i.e. the
>old MediaGX CPU that preceded the Geode/CS5530). For fun, I tried commenting
>out the hardware detection code in the MediaGX driver to force it to detect
>this chipset, but this doesn't work; some research will be necessary to
>determine what changed between the ISA and PCI flavors of this hardware.
>
>anyway, still i dont have RPM and Xfree86-svga does exist only in rpm
>format.
>
>regards...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hans Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 10:45 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [Newbie]XFree86-SVGA Server
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Sorry, this is probably a misunderstanding. You asked for a "XFree86-SVGA".
>To my mind, correct me if I am wrong, SVGA is a S/W driver for video cards.
>XFree86 is using that if told in XF86Config, unless an auto detected driver
>is
>enabled/preferred.
>I tried to help out, but can't do so, unless you tell me what distribution
>you have.
>The SVGA is quite standard and should be available in most distributions.
>Can't guarantee to be of help, but will try.
>
>Hans.
>____________________________________________________________________
>
>At 20:20 2002-12-22 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>but i dont look for xfree86; i look for the SVGA one.
>>
>>regards..
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Hans Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 10:13 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>Subject: Re: [Newbie]XFree86-SVGA Server
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I recommend you to go to http://xfree86.org where you via sub pages can get
>>to
>>the source code through several mirrors.
>>
>>I myself is using Slakware (8.1) where you can also find pre compiled
>>binaries
>>in .tar.gz (.tgz) for xfree86 4.2.0 and also for a "Slackware" version of
>>the "rpm"
>>package.
>>
>>Hans.
>>___________________________________________________________________
>>
>>At 17:17 2002-12-22 +0200, =?ISO-8859-9?Q?Osman_=C7=FDnar_Eren?= wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>i want to install XFree86-SVGA but i could not find it in tar.gz format;
>>>just RPMs do exist.
>>>however rpm is not installed in my system. can i find this server anywhere
>>>in source format?
>>>
>>>thanks in advance.
>>>best regards...
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