Re: more pain in the arse

[Brian Pomerantz <bapper piratehaven org>]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:35:39PM -0500, nm wrote:
> Well adding the "expert text" do my -flags worked.
> Redhat 6.1 installed well, and worked just fine when
> I rebooted.
> 
> I ran X (via startx) and... WOW!  The gnome desktop
> is great.  In this area it has come a long way!
> 
> After about 5 minutes of pretty graphics, the entire
> system froze up and when to a garbled random text
> screen :(
> 
> Not a good sign.  Will there ever be a stable XFree86
> using SVGA cards on Alpha?
> 
> I am using an S3 virge (86C325).  Is this card marginially
> supported?  Would a matrox millenium be 100% stable?
> 

I'm having pretty good results with the G200.  They only problem I'm
seeing is random single pixel nows when I move windows around.


BAPper