RE: tlug: Slackware guest on VMWare??

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:

> Yeah it's a bit strange.  The name G400 does show up in the list but never
> works.  ( I've tried it with Redhat, Mandrake and TurboLinux)  Instead, it
> works on the Mach 64 driver or something...  Marvel G400 has the built-in TV
> support so that might be why.

Perhaps the Marvel G400 does not have a normal G400 chipset?  I know the
standard G400 works great with X, several of us have them at work.
I don't think there is double-headed G400 support yet, but even one of
those is fine as long as you only use it single-headed.

> Another reason I like vmware is I can safely play with Linux using its
> commit-changes-only-if-you-want-to feature.  I'm a real Linux newbie :-)

You're using Windows and you're concerned about safety?  ;-)

Jonathan

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