Re: ET4000/W32p Winbond RAMDAC problems

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From: ian Ian Maclaine-cross
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <sci-kcs2.822276578@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au>,
Kristin Summerhayes <sci-kcs2@jcu.edu.au> wrote:
>I used to run linux a couple of years ago but I had to get rid of it
>because I have a VLB Tseng ET4000/W32p rev B 1 meg with a winbond ramdac
>so I couldn't run X.  Anyhow, I want to get back into it but it's not
>much use to me unless someone has fixed the problem.  Does anyone know
>if someone has patched it (or fixed it some other way)?  Also, does
>anyone know if later versions of this same video card have these
>problems?

Have you tried the Super VGA X server, XF86_SVGA? 

Our Viewtop BP-ET4 PCI-bus cards have the ET4000/W32P and do not work
with the W32P server but do work with the plain XF86_SVGA server as supplied
with Slackware 3.0.0.

-- 
Regards,
Ian Maclaine-cross (ian@ilm.mech.unsw.edu.au)

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