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Hi Marc, |
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The big issue with those cards is that starting with xorg 1.13, the |
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driver model changed and a whole bunch of legacy cards lost anything but |
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the most basic 2D drivers. The result is that even a low spec GUI is |
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kinda painful to use. |
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For those cards, you can always use the glint and s3virge in the |
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VIDEO_CARDS section of of your /etc/portage/make.conf and see if the |
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performance is acceptable to you. |
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On my DS20, I grabbed a VisionTek Radeon HD3450 PCI card off ebay for |
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something like $30, which just builds with the radeon driver and |
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associated firmware blobs in kernel config, and that's more than |
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adequate for running even a 1920x1200 screen off the Alpha. |
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--Jason |
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On 10/14/21 9:16 AM, Marc Tipping wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've a Permedia2 and Trio64v2 I could potentially use with X on the |
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> DS10. The Gentoo Xorg doc is very modern GPU centric, I cant see any |
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> info on legacy cards. Any thoughts on which driver(s)/config I need. |
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> Even an 8bit twm session would be enough ;). |
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> Cheers |
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> M. |
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> Sent from my Galaxy |
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