RE: [aclug-L] Video H!

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary,
        Yeah, Mike was going through the same thing with the same card and it 
just
so happened that I wanted to buy that very card.  I had an old Matrox w/4MB
sitting in computer and we traded.  I love mine and he loves his.  We rode
off into the sunset.  Perfect solution.  :-)  

Jeff2

At 08:16 PM 4/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Jeff2
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>Thanks, I have the sneaking suspicion that's what it'll boil down too. :)
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>Gary.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>Behalf Of Jeffrey L. Hansen
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 4:42 PM
>To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Video H!
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>Gary,
> Greg had the same problem you describe.  He solved it by switching to a
>Matrox Millenium.  :-)
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>jeff2
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>At 04:05 PM 4/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>>Ok, well, I managed to figure out how to update my Kernel to 2.2.6 hoping
>>beyond hope that it would fix my video problems with Xwindows. No luck.
>The >FAQ's on the XF86 site are no help, I updated everything that the faq
>said >I needed to, to fix the problem with my Diamond Speedstar A50 AGP
>card, >didn't work. I THINK it has something to do with the 8 megs of video
>RAM on >the card and getting X to see it, it reports only 1024mb of video
>mem and >tells me not enough available. I'm tapped out, and every page I
>looked at >on the web doesn't address the problem beyond what I've already
>found and >done. Any one out there have an idea?! Anything short of getting
>a new
>>card? There must be a solution out there some where.
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>>Gary.
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>>PS any one live in Junction City or near White City that could take a look
>>at this box would be a boon!
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