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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:08:56
Message-Id: 7bef1f890511200602s35548500r3d2b6cedcf5fd4a8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption by Walter Dnes
1 I think Hans's idea makes sense, since it was the file storm.c that was
2 patched in the first place by others. I'll have to wait, because I've
3 started a new gentoo install due to problems detecting the /boot partition
4 in my machine. I botched an attempt to move data from that partition to the
5 / partition.
6
7 I have been able to do 1064x768 at 16 or 24 bits. Even 1100something x
8 something worked, perhaps not as perfectly.
9
10 Thank you for so many great answers, in great depth. I will see what comes
11 about in a day or two. It's tricky to do this on a dialup.
12
13 Alan Davis
14
15 On 11/20/05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
16 >
17 > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:57:12PM -0600, kashani wrote
18 >
19 > > The Mystique has 4mb of RAM upgradeable to 8mb IIRC. It was likely0
20 > > new in '95-'96 as I scraped together $140 to by the slightly better
21 > > Matrox Millennium used off Ebay in '96. The Mystique did not do well
22 > > at higher resolutions, which is why I went with the Millennium. I'd
23 > > shoot for 800x600 and go from there.
24 >
25 > 1024x768 at 24bits (16 million colours) should be doable.
26 >
27 > --
28 > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
29 > My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
30 > --
31 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
32 >
33 >

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