How to use IMS Twin Turbo 128M

nathan r. hruby yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Feb 11 19:32:01 2003


On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Chris Plummer wrote:

> I have IMS Twin Turbo 128M cards in both an 8500 (running YLD 2.2) and
> an 8600 (running YLD 2.3). I'd like to hook up monitor to the IMS cards
> rather than the built-in video, the main reason being because I don't
> want to buy the stupid mac->vga adapter. I think they are also faster
> than the built-in video, but I'm not sure of this.
> 
> What do I need to do to get YLD to use the IMS card as the main video
> both at the boot time (and at the text login screen), and when I launch
> KDE with startx?
> 

Search the web for imstt.  Last time I looked (YDL-2.0) decent X just 
wasn't a really super thing but possible.  Save the hassle and spend $20 
and get a ATI Rage128

-n
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