Re: [suse-sparc] XFree86-4.1 on ss20

From: James Berry (jberry1@jam.rr.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 14:06:30 PST

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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:06:30 -0600
From: James Berry <jberry1@jam.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] XFree86-4.1 on ss20

4.1 identifies a PGX24 as ATI Rage (since that is the chipset) and tries
to run that server (poorly). The Elite UGA board is identified as sun
and a sunffb server runs well on that.

BTW, Mandrake 7.1 (beta) does much better on sun video boards but does
poorly on other hardware (usb etc..)

James Berry

Donald Knecht wrote:

> can someone clarify this for me, i "think" i remember hearing this
> on the list, the newer X versions don't use the Xsun24 server???
> but rather a conventional, xconfig file and server???
>
> has any one built one of these newer versions like 4.1 or 4.2?
> does it work well?
> i'm using on-board cg14 with 4mb vsimm......
>
> thanks,
>
> don
>
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