From: Michael O'Reilly (oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
Date: 10/01/92


From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Subject: Re: Latest Version (Will it work for me?)
Date: 1 Oct 1992 15:45:07 +0800

daj+@CMU.EDU (Demian A. Johnston) writes:
: Hey guys,
: I haven't have linux around since .95 I see a lot has changed.
: I don't have a et4000 chip. Can I run X with my ATI VgaWonder 512k?
Yes.

: I do have the serial mouse, 386, Plenty of Disk. How about TCP/IP.. Any
: chance someone can code for a Token Ring Driver? Probably not..

Token ring is not (yet) supported. You can use TCP/IP in loopback mode if
you want to. I use to run things like xpilot. :)
 
: Anyway, please tell me about X for my ATI VGA Wonder and How the
: best way to get the current version is?

You need X v2.0 or better. It is currently in beta test only.
It works, it just has a few bugs. The 'real' version should be out in
a week or so. Join the X11 mailing list.
 
: (I remember getting a Boot disk, root disk and mtools and Rawrite)
: Thanks
: Demian
: ---> daj+@cmu.edu
: ----> dj1l@andrew.cmu.edu