Re: NeoMagic Drivers

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From: Tim N. van der Leeuw
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:00

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I have a laptop with NeoMagic chipset as well, and I'm pretty much stuck
with it. X hardly works on it; I can get something resembling 800x600 in
4bit colour but about 50-70 pixels to the right fall off the screen.

NeoMagic is unsupported by XFree86, indeed.


However, Quake (under DOS) does run well on this very same laptop. Quake
can run in full 800x600, without shifting the display to the left or
downwards, or any other problems.
So if Quake can run on this chipset (seeing it as any ordinary SVGA
compatible chipset) run so well, in 256 or more colours, why can't
XFree86? Forget about the acceleration, I just want the bloody thing to
RUN properly in 256 or more colours on 800x600! I know it should be
possible with just some generic SVGA driver, Quake does it!

How do I configure XFree86 for this?

When I try to run the SVGA X Server it always reverts back to 320x200
(ARGH! SCREAM! RUN!) "generic vga" driver while it should be able to run
some sort of "generic svga" driver! :-(

--TNL

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