Re: Oxygen VX1 32MB PCI with Alpha RH 7.0

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:08:26AM -0700, Thursday AKA dr. john wrote:
> 
> I put the VX1 into my  PWS 500a running a new RH 7.1 installation.  The
> Kudzu hardware daemon detected a new card and gave me a lis of cards to
> pick, none of them the VX1.
> 
> I picked "other" in the list of cards to install and then it seemed that
> the chipset WAS detected.  From there it was just a matter of clicking
> boxes.  You get to choose one or more color depth/screen resolution
> combos, a screen shot comes up and you get to say if you like it, if not
> Kudzu runs the next lower one for your approval, etc. I got a fairly
> stable screen at 24-bit color, 1280x1024 reso.

I think if you chose a "Permedia-2" based option, like ELSA Gloria Synergy,
you'd get the "glint" driver, which also handles the VX1.

--Jay++

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