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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:55:07AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:

> > The only thing remotely related to video is this:
> >
> > Primary Graphic Device [External PCI]
>
> I presume it is not set to this right now. If you set it to
> onboard AGP, you don't have any choice of shared memory size?

The choices are AGP or PCI and it has always been set as above.
There is no 'External PCI' so therefore it must have chosen
AGP anyway.

Xvesa just can't access AGP.

> >> But I'm not getting a video card. Don't have a slot for it,
> >> for
>
> How many slots came with the machine? One for the serial card
> and what else?

One other, which I use for ethernet. It is connected to a 'headless'
computer where this box is backed up everyday. I know of too many
people who have lost everything when their hdd went down, or something
like that. That computer is used for nothing else.

> >> Someone once mentioned getting USB video cards, to run four
> >> monitors at once from his laptop for a form of widescreen
> >> TV, with a TV tuner card. Sindi
> >
> > I prefer the software solution. The i810 server should give
> > me graphics as excellent as those on debian.
>
> More than 1MB will give you more excellent graphics, unless you
> don't want more colors and resolution. I hope agpgart works
> with the i810 server.

Me too. The server I use for debian was one adapted to the i810 chip,
although for glibc6 and a debianized kernel. It is twice the size of the
libc5 one below:

The tinyX package (url posted by David M recently) contains the following:

-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    873898 2006-05-08 10:27:26 bin/Xchips
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    839441 2006-05-08 10:27:25 bin/Xfbdev
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    877965 2006-05-08 10:27:27 bin/Xi810
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    843687 2006-05-08 10:27:25 bin/Xigs
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    856234 2006-05-08 10:27:29 bin/Xipaq
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    914139 2006-05-08 10:27:27 bin/Xmach64
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    872160 2006-05-08 10:27:25 bin/Xsavage
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    841146 2006-05-08 10:27:28 bin/Xsis530
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    881964 2006-05-08 10:27:26 bin/Xtrident
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    852660 2006-05-08 10:27:29 bin/Xtrio
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    876265 2006-05-08 10:27:30 bin/Xts300
-rwxr-xr-x 0/0    863260 2006-05-08 10:27:31 bin/Xvesa

I wonder if David's area lost power. We are having a big
windstorm over here, and he's very near the coast. Haven't heard
from him.

Thanks for the help,

Lee

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