Hello All, Am building firewall box up out of old parts, however having difficulty finding a supported PCI video card for X. I don't have an AGP slot on this old box. I have three different PCI video cards, however cannot get any of them up and operational in X. Here are the cards and problems associated with each. Card Type Problem ======================|====================================================== Diamond | Setup OK with sax. However unreadable fonts in X. Stealth 64 (2 MByte) | Graphics OK. All text is unreadable including pop-up | menus and task bars. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matrox | Not recognized by sax. I don't have any of the specs MGA-IMP+/P4 (2 MByte?)| on this card so cannot manually set it up with | XF86Setup or xf86config. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matrox | Not recognized by sax. I don't have any of the specs MGA-PCI/2 (2 MByte?) | on this card so cannot manually set it up with | XF86Setup or xf86config. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If these cards are not support I can purchase a inexpensive PCI video card that I can use sax to set up, as I have had no luck with the low level XF86Setup or xf86config utilities (Sorry not a graphics card EE). Any PCI video card suggestions? thanx, jpg
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Am building firewall box up out of old parts, however having difficulty finding a supported PCI video card for X. I don't have an AGP slot on this old box.
I would recommend against an X client on the firewall.
I have three different PCI video cards, however cannot get any of them up and operational in X. Here are the cards and problems associated with each.
Card Type Problem ======================|====================================================== Diamond | Setup OK with sax. However unreadable fonts in X. Stealth 64 (2 MByte) | Graphics OK. All text is unreadable including pop-up | menus and task bars. [snip]
I have a card here that's known to work... but I'd rather keep it as a spare. Only 2MB, S3 trio64 based. Sounds like you have a fonts problem. Start at a low screen resolution. Then consult an X-expert if the problem persists. :-) -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! |
Hello, John. I have a Diamond Stealth 64 with 2MB RAM in my lowly P150. This card has worked for me since I used Red Hat 4.1. The last thing I put on it was SuSE 6.3, and it worked just fine. You might want to try choosing the S3 driver for X rather than the SVGA, which is what SaX tried to set mine up as. It was a long time before the mouse worked with my KVM switch. However, upon realising my mistake, and after a quick reconfig to use the S3 driver, everything popped up nicely. I can't really say much about the Matrox cards, but after following these lists for many years, anecdotal evidence suggests that Matrox are one of the best supported cards in Linux. I don't see why you'd be having trouble with them. About the only thing I can think of is that instead of having SaX autodetect the card, choose the right driver by hand, and then configure the rest from there. Not all older cards are capable of being autodetected, but that doesn't mean that if you manually select a driver, it won't work. Try it out, you never know. Hope this helps at least a little bit, Stuart. <snip> Card Type Problem ======================|===================================================== = Diamond | Setup OK with sax. However unreadable fonts in X. Stealth 64 (2 MByte) | Graphics OK. All text is unreadable including pop-up | menus and task bars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Matrox | Not recognized by sax. I don't have any of the specs MGA-IMP+/P4 (2 MByte?)| on this card so cannot manually set it up with | XF86Setup or xf86config. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Matrox | Not recognized by sax. I don't have any of the specs MGA-PCI/2 (2 MByte?) | on this card so cannot manually set it up with | XF86Setup or xf86config. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - </snip>
At 05:53 PM 1/1/2001, John Griffin wrote:
Card Type Problem ======================|====================================================== Diamond | Setup OK with sax. However unreadable fonts in X. Stealth 64 (2 MByte) | Graphics OK. All text is unreadable including pop-up | menus and task bars. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matrox | Not recognized by sax. I don't have any of the specs MGA-IMP+/P4 (2 MByte?)| on this card so cannot manually set it up with | XF86Setup or xf86config. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matrox | Not recognized by sax. I don't have any of the specs MGA-PCI/2 (2 MByte?) | on this card so cannot manually set it up with | XF86Setup or xf86config. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
These are not exactly the best cards to be running X on at all. I have a Diamond Stealth 64 for my router box, but I don't use X and the text console works just fine. An inexpensive ($30-$100 USD) PCI card would be an ATI Rage Pro, an Nvidia TNT2 M64 or Riva 128, or a 3Dfx Voodoo 3. Most of these cards are available with 4MB, 8MB, or 16MB of memory. I think all of these are supported by the X SVGA server, and you can find specific X server files that can activate more advance features. Christopher Reimer
Hello John, on Monday, January 01, 2001 at 17:53:23 -0800, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:
Hello All,
Am building firewall box up out of old parts, however having difficulty finding a supported PCI video card for X. I don't have an AGP slot on this old box.
I have three different PCI video cards, however cannot get any of them up and operational in X. Here are the cards and problems associated with each.
Diamond | Setup OK with sax. However unreadable fonts in X. Stealth 64 (2 MByte) | Graphics OK. All text is unreadable including pop-up | menus and task bars.
I remember having a similar problem with a SiS 6326 card. I solved it by using
the option "xaa_no_color_exp" in the device section of the XF86Config.
HTH, Regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet
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