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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> The new S3 card in this different computer did not work in the 
> framebuffer modes, "undefined mode number".  Can anyone else check 
> out this kernel for the S3 patch?

Apparently Xvesa works with these cards. Getting X to run on those
cards was why I built this kernel. It looks like that purpose has
already been fulfilled.

> > Okay, maybe tomorrow or this weekend.  I spent all day on testing 
> > first the cards and then the software and need a break/
> 
> I will take the break tomorrow, I guess.

Whenever. It looks like this project is finished.

> Neither of them works with the Rendition card.  The old one worked 
> with Matrox and Voodoo.  I did not test the new one with them - 
> should I?

No, that's OK.

> Two Trio64 cards did not work, one in each of two computers.  
> Should I try Virge next?  They appear to have the same text modes 
> (same files work with resizecons).

I doubt those would work.

> I was unable to properly decompress vesafb.tar.gz with BL3:
> After matroxfb it said "invalid tar magic".
> 
> mdacon.o should have come out next.  In BL2 it was 1/2 the size of 
> the previous version.  I copied over xfbdev from BL2 to BL3.

Looks like Geocities at its finest. Is the tarball the right size?
If not, wget -c if you want the whole thing.

> There are some files in the package which are just lists of modules.

They have no function, and are the result of an overeager cp command.

David
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