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- From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
- Subject: Re: Anyone got XFree86 running on a Trident 9000?
- Message-ID: <martin.725621948@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <RAYMOND.92Dec15102202@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl> <1992Dec15.134651.2243@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:39:08 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
- >raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes:
- >> So here's his question: is the T9000 backward compatible, or does it require
- >> whole new driver for XFree86? Or, did anybody succeed in getting XFree86-1.1
- >> running with this adapter, and if so, what should he do?
- >
- >For reasons we never figured out, we were never able to get the Trident
- >driver working on the 9000 chipset. I have the tech manuals on both,
- >and it should act like a 512K 8900C, but it doesn't. Since I don't have
- >a 9000 board (and returned the borrowed 8900C that I used), I haven't
- >pursued it any farther.
-
- We have a TVGA card that uses the Trident 8800CS chipset (at least that
- what it says on the chip). Will this card work with XFree86 1.1 ?
- I can't find any documentation to say if it will or not.
-
- Martin
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