How to use IMS Twin Turbo 128M

[Ted Calvin]

Please, that would be great. My 9600 doesn't seem to want any card but 
the IMSTT.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:31:43 -0500, James Applebaum wrote:
> 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
> 
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