Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

2006-10-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:55:05AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >Depending what you want as a window manager etc.. You have to scan 10 > > OK. I will now reinstall and scan the pants of the entire > distribution. STOP! You don't have to reinstall. You've got a working CLI right? y

Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

2006-10-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
o. I should probably reconfigure the Xwindows to make it more precisely set up. I can also have a go at configuring the printer. I am well accustomed to doing this in Fedora. Regards, Michael Fothergill From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

2006-10-17 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > gpm also is a quicker means of > experimenting with mouse types than trying to "startx" over and over > until you get it right. > Or, to find the correct location, you can type "cat /dev/psaux" and move the mouse around; if you see a bunch of garbage appear on the screen, you

Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

2006-10-17 Thread Kent West
Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I have installed Debian on my PC here. It runs a 1200MHz Athlon CPU > and has one 20GB disk on it with Fedora Core 5 on it and now after > deleted Windows a second disk (primary) which is 40GB in size has now > got the Desktop Debian installation

Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

2006-10-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Thanks for responding, mikef From: M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation. Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:42:25 +1000 On Tuesday 17 October 2006 21:10, Michael Fothergill shared this with u

Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

2006-10-17 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 21:10, Michael Fothergill shared this with us all: >--> Dear Debian folks, >--> >--> I have installed Debian on my PC here. Which Debian? Sarge, Etch or Sid? >It runs a 1200MHz Athlon CPU and > has --> one 20GB disk on it with Fedora Core 5 on it and now after delete

Re: Video cards? - impressions, not necessarily facts

2000-04-11 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:29:23AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Are you sure XFree supports dual-head on the G400 (without two > video cards)? Where the mga man page says `Multi-head > configurations are supported' I assumed it meant with mutiple > cards. I was mistaken. It seems th

Re: Video cards? - impressions, not necessarily facts

2000-04-11 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:09:00PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > interesting :) and have trouble deciding on a video card. > > I thought 3dfx was supposed to be a good choice (looking > > at the 3000), as was Matrox (the G400). > > I would go foor 3dfx and Matrox based cards, when co

Re: video cards

1997-11-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > "Paul Miller wrote:" > > I'm looking for a PCI video card for Linux, which will allow me to do > > at least 1024x768 in 24bit mode.. and of course as fast as possible. I > > would like to spend around $300.. > > > > Here are a few card

Re: video cards

1997-11-20 Thread Lee Bradshaw
"Paul Miller wrote:" > I'm looking for a PCI video card for Linux, which will allow me to do > at least 1024x768 in 24bit mode.. and of course as fast as possible. I > would like to spend around $300.. > > Here are a few cards I've looked at: Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (8 meg) > - $250 Matrox Millenn

Re: video cards

1997-11-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right now I'm thinking about the Matrox Millennium II (8 meg).. Good choice. > Are there > any other cards which have better proformence? Not right now. Matrox cards are (I am told) the fastest under XFree86. >and how well are these cards supported und

Re: Video Cards

1997-09-12 Thread David
We use S3virge cards. They work well at 16bpp 1024*768. They are also cheap. david.. Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm http://www.binary.net.au On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:

Re: Video Cards

1997-09-11 Thread timm
We use Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 video cards that cost us about $75 (I think) and support up to 1152x??? in 16bpp. They support 1280x1024 under Win95, so there is probably a way to make Linux go that high also. Timm Gleason On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zi

Re: Video Cards

1997-09-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > > Ok, getting tired of 640x480 and 8bpp color gona do some looking this > weekend for a new video card. Anyone have recomendations that i can check > into? X Supported of course and able to go 800x600 and 16bpp ... > > Only limiting factor i

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but > it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman > doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as > options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have found (v6969,

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-17 Thread psiko
Lawrence Chim wrote: >psiko wrote: >> >> > >> > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but >> >it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman >> >doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as >> >options. The latest Hardware-HOWT

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-17 Thread T*m TaT*m
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but > it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman > doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as > options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-16 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> > On Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:10:08 +0100 (MET) Michael Tempsch wrote: > > > Hi again, forgot something - ask the salesdroid to actually give you > > some real service and dig out the information about what Matrox card it > > is... > > I did do that shortly after I posted the original message

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-16 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:10:08 +0100 (MET) Michael Tempsch wrote: > Hi again, forgot something - ask the salesdroid to actually give you > some real service and dig out the information about what Matrox card it > is... I did do that shortly after I posted the original message. It is a model

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
psiko wrote: > > > > > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but > >it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman > >doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as > >options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have found (v6969, 14 No

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-15 Thread psiko
> > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but >it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman >doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as >options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have found (v6969, 14 November >1995) doesn't list

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-15 Thread Rob Browning
"Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but > it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman > doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as > options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-15 Thread dpk
I have had sucess using the ViRGE chipset with X. The latest release 3.2 supports this card, and is available in the Debian packages. 3.2A is an accelerated driver also now available, and is what I use with my ViRGE chip. However the 3.2A servers only come in binary form (therefore no debian

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-15 Thread Dima
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but >it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman >doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as >options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have found