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Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed May 3 07:08:26 EDT 2000


I beg to differ. Both XF86Setup and Sax used to hang on the 2.2.13 kernel 
with my ATI 4MB Xpert at work. The reason was that kernel frame buffer was 
turned on by default and that board was not compliant with the current 
frame buffer standard. Once the frame buffer support was turned off both 
Sax and XF86Setup worked.
Mike Bilow wrote:
> Yes, but XF86Setup has one critically important advantage over the other
> tools: it will force the use of the basic VGA16 driver for its own run.  
> This allows bailing out of a totally non-functional video situation in
> nearly all cases.  If your system is too far gone for it to help you,
> usually the only receovrse is to attack XF86Config with a text editor.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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