[CLUE-Tech] X on Woody

[mgushee at havenrock.com]

On 12 Feb 2003 at 13:04, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> > > FWIW, the video board is detected as an S3 864 by XFree86 -configure.
> > 
> > Well, is that what it actually is? If so, that may be part of the problem. For 
> > whatever reason, some older S3 cards that were supported well by XFree86 
> > 3.x are not supported 4.x. I had one of those myself, and finally had to 
> > break down and buy a new video card in order to upgrade XFree86.
> 
> This may be the way to go...I'm setting this box up to try out Freevo and
> MythTV - and I will need a video card with TV out, anyway, so maybe I'll
> wait until I have such a card before I bother with setting up X.

You know you can get used video cards at Action Computer for $5-20? 
Some of them are pretty good. I'm using a $10 Matrox Millennium w/ 4MB of 
RAM ... since I'm not a gamer, that's plenty for me. BTW, what's MythTV?

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO USA