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Hi Jason, |
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Thanks - that's a bit sad about legacy cards. :( I guess this is Linux not BSD. |
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I really wasn't sure which cards would work so thanks for the suggestion, I'll see what I can pick up cheap. |
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Cheers! |
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Marc. |
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Sent from my Galaxy |
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-------- Original message -------- |
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From: Jason Howe <jason@×××××.net> |
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Date: 15/10/2021 4:22 pm (GMT+00:00) |
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To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Alpha gfx card support for Xorg |
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Hi Marc, |
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The big issue with those cards is that starting with xorg 1.13, the driver model changed and a whole bunch of legacy cards lost anything but the most basic 2D drivers. The result is that even a low spec GUI is kinda painful to use. |
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For those cards, you can always use the glint and s3virge in the VIDEO_CARDS section of of your /etc/portage/make.conf and see if the performance is acceptable to you. |
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On my DS20, I grabbed a VisionTek Radeon HD3450 PCI card off ebay for something like $30, which just builds with the radeon driver and associated firmware blobs in kernel config, and that's more than 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 DS10. The Gentoo Xorg doc is very modern GPU centric, I cant see any info on legacy cards. Any thoughts on which driver(s)/config I need. 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 |