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Re: zgv

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From: Anthony Rumble
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:00
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Matt McLeod (matt@hex.hna.com.au) wrote:

Ive never had any luck with ET400/W32 cards.. Maby it was just
bad luck, but ive tried abotu 4 of them, and ive had problems
with each one.

The only card I can recommend is the S3 Trio64.. works with everything
very well.. and is a damn fast PCI card

Anthony

: 
: I'm having some difficulty in getting zgv to work properly.  It starts
: up OK, and seems to think that there aren't any problems, but the screen
: is garbled.
: 
: The video card is an ET4000/W32i-based thing.  svgalib stuff works
: just fine (including vimage, but of course it doesn't work from
: within emacs).  I'm running Red Hat 3.0.3.
: 
: Any ideas?  Is it a known compatibility problem between the W32i
: and zgv?  I've tried building it myself, but the resulting binary
: has the same problem (so it isn't a problem with the RH binary).
: 
: Barring being able to get zgv working, can anyone recommend a
: reasonable graphics viewer that'll run from emacs?
: 
: -- 
: Matt McLeod
: System Administrator
: Hunter Network Association

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From: smilie@jolt.mpx.com.au (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: zgv
Date: 1996/04/29
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