Thanks you clearly know something about this. I don't really want to get into a discussion about graphics development politics, but I think the terseness and inexactness in your reply is clear! The distribution I am installing has the components cyrix_drv.o, XF86_SVGA and XFree86 version 4.0.3 in it. Also documentation including a man page in respect of cyrix. Perhaps I should take up the winge with RedHat.
My question to the list is setting out the problem as I see it (on the screen). I am offering to spend time doing something to fix a problem which is
apparently common. A google search specifying all words "cyrix mediagx xfree86 configuration" produces over 1000 hits 99% of which are questions without answers. I am determined to solve it.
Thanks for your help I will look at 4.2.0
Charles Bradshaw (BradCan)
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">On Thu, 2 May 2002, Charles Bradshaw wrote:Hello
I am running RedHat 7.1 Kernal 2.4.2-2 and XFree 4.0.3 on a Cyrix
GCT-MGXm mother board having CX5510 and Cx5520 chip sets.
I have working Cyrix MediaGX but only using XF86_SVGA which seems to
support only depth 8 at 640x480.
If I add Driver "cyrix" in my Device section I get the following error:
Config Error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config:346
Driver "cyrix"
^^^^^
Unknown section keyword
This is in contridiction to configuration info for cyrix to be found at
www.xfree86.org which is clear that cyrix is supported by XF86_SVGA !
XF86_SVGA is part of 3.3, not 4.0.3.
4.0.3 is over a year old, things may have improved with 4.2.0
