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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: Anyone got XFree86 running on a Trident 9000?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.105733.10189@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <RAYMOND.92Dec15102202@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl> <1992Dec15.134651.2243@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <martin.725621948@marsh>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:57:33 GMT
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- In article <martin.725621948@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
- >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.
-
- It won't work with the colour server. The 8800 chips do not support
- 256 colour modes properly. The mono server should work with the
- generic driver (ie, 640x480).
-
- David
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