Re: [aclug-L] Video Card Support

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary,

I tried to set a Linux system up with that same card awhile back and had no
end of trouble.  I did finally get it to work at 640x480 8bpp, no
acceleration.  After much reading, it appears that the support mentioned in
XFree86 3.3.3.1 is incomplete.  After much frustration getting XF86 to work
with the A50, I finally traded it to Jeff Hansen for a Matrox Millennia
(PCI) which worked flawlessly the first time.

I also had the problem you mentioned with the white block for the mouse
curser.  I think that adding either noaccel or nohwcurser to XF86Config
eliminated that.  On the XFree86 website there are documents under the
specific version that give additional tips, also take a search through
comp.os.linux.* with DejaNews, since there were some tips there.  Most were
older (I was trying this in Jan/Feb and most of the posts there were from
October 98 or earlier.

Good luck!
Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary L Merrick <scarabea@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 11:55 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Video Card Support


>
>I can't get Red Hat 5.2 to use my Video Card correctly. I had thought I'd
>found the solution with the 3.3.3 version of Xwindows (XFree86) and it did
>include my Diamond Speedstar A50, but no matter what setting I use it'll
>come up with no text, scrambled graphics, virtual desktop and or any
>combination there-of with Xconfigurator and XF86config, I can't even get
>into XF86Setup. It appears also that the server is only seeing 1024 of my
>cards 8mb's of RAM. I even downloaded the 2.2 Kernel and tried to compile
>it, but when LILO reboots, it still shows Linux Ver 2.0.+ I really want to
>switch over to Linux completely, but I'm glad I'm dual booting with Windows
>98, because right now Linux is no good to me if I can't see any of the
>graphical menus. I can't even edit any of the config files because I can't
>see them in any Xwindows editors.
>
>PLEASE help, I'd hate to have to dump Xwindows over a problem this silly,
>it's got to be some little silly thing that I'm missing.
>
>Gary Merrick
>scarabea@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>