Re: tlug: TurboLinux 1.2 USA released

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:

> > > I just had a look at the TurboLinux homepage.  A statement
> > > that, say, startled me somewhat is
> > > 
> > >   Hardware Support - TurboLinux supports just about every
> > >   single piece of hardware that is sold for Intel PCs today. 
> > >   If you have a question about a specific piece of hardware,
> > >   email sstone@example.com and ask about it.
> > > 
> > > That's a rather bold claim and surely would make TurboLinux
> > > the most attractive distribution, but I am a bit unsure
> > > whether you can stand up to it.  For example, there are
> > > quite a number of graphic accelerators that are not properly
> > > supported by XFree86.  Do you mean by support ``you have to
> > > run a 1152x900 true colour display in 640x400 plain VGA mode
> > > with 16 colours'' or do you *really* support this kind of
> > > hardware? 
> > 
> > It is a bold claim -- so far, however, it's proven to be true.  Plus, the
> > USA version comes with a 30-day guarantee :)  Besides, I did say 'just
> > about', which covers my *** a fair bit :) 
> 
> Hmmm, so how about laptops?  Do you have an answer to the
> notorious NeoMagic graphic accelerator problem.  By now, I
> have three machines running Linux, all three of which
> require Xi Graphics' X-server (one desktop machine with an
> STB Velocity 3D graphics card and two laptops with NeoMagic
> chips).  Thus, I plan to go to Akihabara this weekend to buy
> a third copy of this software.  (Two of these machines
> belong to my employer, so I don't have to pay for all of the 
> licenses luckily.)

Doesn't the Velocity 3D use an S3 ViRGE VX?  XFree 3.3.1's S3V server is
*supposed* to work with that.  If you have a Velocity 128, TurboLinux 1.2
will work with that as well, since it has the SuSE Riva128 server.

As far as NeoMagic chipsets - the answer I have been giving the people who
have asked is, 'Buy Xi Graphics' X Server' :)

I'm hoping that XFree86 3.3.2 or 4.0 will support the Neomagic thing...
how about it, Chris?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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