From: bbfaus@wam.umd.edu (John E. Krokes) Subject: Re: CIRRUS or VESA with linux ? Date: 28 May 1993 04:52:12 GMT
In article <1993May27.095213.10030@jussieu.fr> rousseau@polymnie.ibp.fr (ROUSSEAU Alain) writes:
>We are have linux on a pc with a CIRRUS card (VESA compatible)
>and we are unable to use XWindows because we didn't succeeded in
>modyfing our Xconfig file for it. Does anybody has modified his Xconfig
>in order it works with a CIRRUS or a VESA.
>It raises an important problem : in linux version 1.0, there must be a
>large database of the most used video cards and if possible automatic
>detection of the video cards. In an easy-to-install version of linux
>we can not indeed ask people to wonder about video cards frequencies and have
>the risk to burn their monitor. So, it would be a good thing to collect
>all the configurations for video cards that have been made.
>Don't consider that as a flam but just as a common sense remark.
>
>
Please don't consider this a flame either. :}
1) The current version of Linux is not 1.0. It is .99, patchlevel 9
(soon to be 10, unless I missed something)
2) This is really an X-windows problem, not a Linux problem. Try one of
the X newsgroups.
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