Re: lnx4win

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

Craig Andrews wrote:

> Sounds fantastic, eh? I just thought of something bad, actually. The
> machine I was intending to put it on has a nasty AGP S3 Trio3D card in it.
> Something tells me that support will be minimal at best for this pile of
> pants, I mean top quality VGA (and thats about all) card?

If your card supports VESA, you can use the Framebuffer X server. It's
what SuSE uses for their graphical install, and what a lot op people
with
a laptop use(d) with their NeoMagic chipsets.

To set it up, look at http://zjuul.net/framebuffer/

Jules
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