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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Anyone got XFree86 running on a Trident 9000?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:55:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.195537.28929@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <RAYMOND.92Dec15102202@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl> <1992Dec15.134651.2243@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <martin.725621948@marsh>
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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.
- >
-
- No. XFree86 only support the TVGA8900C chipset. Not the 8800, not the
- 8900B, and not the 9000 (although we have hopes of getting the latter to
- work). Send me email if you want to know why the 8800B is not supported.
- The bottom line is that all of Trident's chipset suffer from major brain
- damage.
-
- > Martin
- > --
- > Your eyes are weary from staring at the screen. Your eyelids feel very heavy.
- > You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your
- > eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt
- > otherwise. When you awake you will follow up this post and enthusiastically
- > agree with it. Then you will send all your money to martin@cs.curtin.edu.au.
-
-
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