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- From: vernard@cc.gatech.edu (Vernard C. Martin)
- Subject: Re: Trident Card Woes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.194258.12000@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Reply-To: vernard@cc.gatech.edu (Vernard C. Martin)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <725518847.AA27908@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:42:58 GMT
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- In article <725518847.AA27908@remote.halcyon.com> Bryant.Graham@f3.n292.z1.fidonet.org (Bryant Graham) writes:
- >Edward,
- > I join the choir in pleading for help with a TVGA card.
- >
- >
- >I have:
- >
- > 386sx 20
- > SyncMaster 3 monitor
- > 2 IDE Seagate 100 meg H.D.
- > Digicom Scout plus 14.4
- > 3.5 & 5.25 F.D.
- > 4 meg RAM <4 more on order>
- >
- > install older SLS 0.96 <full package>
- > on a 32 meg partion on /dev/hd0/
-
- I didn't think that the SLS package would fit on a 32 meg parition if you
- included X and the GNU compiler.
-
- Anyway,
- If you have a Trident 8900B chipset then you can use the Xfree861.1 binaries
- and get up to 800x655 in monochrome no problem. You can't do color at all.
-
- This can't be fixed without hacking the X server as far as I can tell. Its a
- limitation on way the chipset gives the source and destination bytes to the
- server.
-
- hope this helps.
-
- Vernard
- Vernard Martin (vernard@cc.gatech.edu) Georgia Tech College of Computing
-