Re: Opera and Web Browsers was Re: [LUG] C++ book

[RuS <rus at undertow.f9.co.uk>]

Speaking of graphics cards and X....

I'm running redhat 6.2 on a new machine i built - with a diamond 
speedstar A55 8mb agp card.  basically, it took me ages to configure x 
3.3.6 to use it properly - without defaulting to bog-standard svga 
driver with abysmal performance.  I had to lie to it about what S3 chip 
it was etc...

Just wondering if anyone knows how well X 4.0 or higher supports it?  
and will upgrading to a 2.4 kernel (with agp support) help?

RuS
rus at undertow.f9.co.uk


Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> tony wrote:
> > 
> > I recently compiled Qt-2.2 - seems to work ok for me on a SuSE 6.4 system
> > with X version 4.01.  I found I had to use configure options for gif and jpeg
> > support.
> 
> Thanks - I think it is all hinting that I should upgrade Redhat from
> 6.1.
> 
> I also had to enable gif support to even get it compiled.
> 
> Alas, I tried version 4.01 of Xfree86 and found it has worse support for
> my graphics card than 3.3.6 (Serves me right for buying a cheap PC?!).
> So I backed the upgrade out.
> 
> VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems 5597/5598 VGA (rev
> 104).
> 
> Anyone got this to work with Xfree86 version 4?
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