How to use IMS Twin Turbo 128M

Lee Parry yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Feb 12 07:57:01 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

So it can be done then? I have a TT 128 as my secondary adapter, and I was
just ignoring it, and trying not to look at my redundant second monitor. :)

If you get it working Chris, let me know!

Lee