Re: IMS Twin Turbo 128 video card problems


Subject: Re: IMS Twin Turbo 128 video card problems
From: Rich Dolinsky (r.e.dolinsky@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 11:19:22 MST


Since you are using BootX. Tyr to see if the checkbox No Viedo Mode helps
you at all... If you can get to text logon...do what below tells you.

on 1/29/02 1:01 PM, Iain Stevenson at iain@iainstevenson.com wrote:

>
> This card seems only to work in accelerated mode at a very limited number
> of resolutions. I never had any success and swapped the card for ATI ones
> that are well supported by Linux.
>
> For a start, I suggest that you:
>
> - start Linux in non-accelerated mode - this is a BootX option the name of
> which unfortunately escapes me
>
> - look through /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it will contain something like this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Option "UseFBDev"
> Driver "imstt"
> BusID "PCI:0:13:0"
> EndSection
>
> Don't worry too much if it's not exactly the same. Change the "imstt" to
> "fbdev" and add:
>
> Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
>
> .. within the "Device" section. See is this helps.
>
> Iain
>
>
>
>
> --On Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:39 am -0500 Matheau Casner
> <mcasner@redlogic.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a YDL and Linux newbie. I am trying to install YDL 2.0 (Pomona) on a
>> Power Computing clone: Power Tower Pro 200Mhz (9500).
>>
>> It came with a Integrated Micro Solutions Twin Turbo 128 video card with
>> 8Mb RAM. YDL 2.0 seems to get hung up with the video driver upon starting
>> X. The Twin Turbo video card choice was available to me in the install
>> screen so I assumed it would work. Has anyone else had difficulty getting
>> X to run on this card? Would YDL 2.1 be a good upgrade for this.
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts...
>> Mat Casner
>> mcasner@redlogic.com
>>
>
>



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