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"Abed M. Hammoud, D.Sc." <abed@oregano.wustl.edu> writes:

> 
> Thomas Roell wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, this statement is wrong. There is a driver for neomagic
> > chipsets. Check out http://www.xig.com. External/Internal switching
> > supported (with different refresh rates), Power Saving modes and a lot
> > of other nifty features.
> >
> > - Thomas
> 
> Hello Thomas, I have installed your X server on my thinkpad 385. I still
> cannot use the External/Internal switching feature (I called custumer support
> a lot of times).

The 385 has a NM2070 in it, right ? Are you using "CTRL+ALT+TAB" for
switching ?

> Also, I have a question for you: Does your server support the presence of
> a color index visual and 16 bit visual at the same time like in SGI and
> Metro-X.

First off, Metro-X does not support this as far as I know. SGI
supports it only on hardware that can do it. Same goes for
Accelerated-X. And there only a few pieces of PC hardware can actually
do it.

> i.e, I would like to be able to display 256 color images and 16 bit color
> images
> without having to restart the server all the time.

I'm doing expactly this here, except that I'm using 256 + 16M. 

- Thomas
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