[CLUE-Tech] X on Woody

Sean LeBlanc seanleblanc at americanisp.net
Wed Feb 12 13:31:16 MST 2003


On 02-12 13:20, mgushee at havenrock.com wrote:
> 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? 

Thanks, I may call them and see if they have any that provide TV out.

> 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?

http://www.mythtv.org



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