Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: "Donsbach
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:04:41
Message-Id: E8C532D801BE5B479B28B626184E8CDD031BC208@tayexc14.americas.cpqcorp.net
1 Fabien wrote:
2 > My problem is that the box still has it's original TGA2 graphic card
3 which is not
4 > supported by xfree.
5
6 Yes it is. Has been for quite a while. At least it is in other distros
7 like Red Hat and Debian and the support was submitted back to the Xfree
8 maintainers (thanks to Jay Estabrook).
9
10 > Can I change the graphic board with *ANY* pci card ? Or do I have to
11 search for a
12 > Alpha-specific card ?
13
14 Matrox Millenium[II], Permedia 2 based boards and ATI Radeon 7500 all
15 work well and are supported as well. But, you should be able to get your
16 TGA2 going.
17
18 Jeff D
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