How to use IMS Twin Turbo 128M

[Ted Calvin]

After searching the web, It appears that the BenH oldworld kernal 
supports the Twin Turbo, but when I start Xwindows, it seems that the 
color is really messed up. It makes it quite worthless.
I'll keep trying things and let you know if I have any results.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:27:31 -0600, Ted Calvin wrote:
> 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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