TwinTurbo (non) support

[Iain Stevenson]

The truth is that the IMSTT works for some pople and others (like me) never 
get the thing to work.  I have two 9600s and have put ATI cards in both of 
them.

IMHO the IMSTT driver only works with a very limited range of video modes - 
so if your monitor is not compatible with this range then you will not get 
it to work and waste hours fruitlessly altering configuration variables.

Experimenting with X is a bit tricky - you MUST always start from a console 
prompt and not the graphical login (if you already start XWindows with 
'startx' don't worry about this).

You need to configure BootX to load the video driver at startup (this is 
documented in many places) and select a video mode that is compatible with 
your monitor.  This starts Linux with accelerated video in console mode. 
You should then run Xautoconfig4 to create a configuration for X which will 
be based on the working console mode acceleration.  Then start X and hope 
....

  Iain




--On Friday, April 12, 2002 3:10 am +0000 hamishblair@mac.com wrote:

> Hi
>
> I figured out how to install YDL (need to delete partition first) but the
> display I get under KDE is horrid.  Really garish 70's colours, and
> sometimes the text is black on black - so can't read it.
>
> Worked out its because my 9600 has an IXMicro TwinTurbo graphics card,
> which is not supported.
>
> Any ideas for a work-around?  I would like to use a GUI, but to not to
> have to shell out major $$.
>
> Thanks
> Hamish
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