How to use IMS Twin Turbo 128M

[James Applebaum]

I have a 9650 that has this same card... After many hours of fighting 
with the system and rebuilding the kernal about 7 or 8 times with 
different video options I was able to get this card to work fine.  The 
process I use was less then systematic... it is actually a bit of a 
kick to build a kernal with custom options. (I got a bit distracted : ) 
)
It can be done.  Runs fine in KDE and Gnome as well as console... I use 
my box as a file sever for my Mac clients.
I will check my kernal config and post the settings when I get the 
chance.... it may give you a starting point.


> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:35:05 -0500 (EST)
> From: "nathan r. hruby" <nathan@drama.uga.edu>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: How to use IMS Twin Turbo 128M
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> 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