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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: SCOTT MCNAY
date: 1997-12-18 10:44:00
subject: Mini-Linux and TVGA900

 *** Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
 SM> XF86Setup requires the plain VGA driver.  If you're loading from a CD,
 SM> look for either the VGA16 driver or XF16Setup, or, better yet, load
 SM> both to be sure.  There's an XF86Config, which is a text-based setup
 SM> program, and XF86Setup is the X-based setup program.
MK> Anyhow Pat Moran also told me about this and it appears that
MK> there is confusion amongst my cohorts here about this issue.
I've been spending the last few weeks TRYING to get X working, using Debian, 
Red Hat, Caldera, and Slackware, so I've gotten very familiar with what's 
available on the CDs setup-wise.  My CPU is flaky, so that seems to be PART 
of the problem that I'm having.  Anyway, I'm finding that I'm have to edit 
XF86Config manually and use xvidtune to adjust each mode individually (can't 
see the screen too well when its whizzing by!), because the automatic stuff 
doesn't seem to set it up right.  I'm not sure if that's because of the flaky 
CPU or what.
--Scott.
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