Bug 1995 - STB Velocity 128 Video Card not fully supported as claimed
Summary: STB Velocity 128 Video Card not fully supported as claimed
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-04-05 03:52 UTC by leelynn
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-04-05 20:12:25 UTC
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Description leelynn 1999-04-05 03:52:54 UTC
My STB Velocity 128 card has 8 megs of memory and
Xconfigurator only recognizes 1 meg!  This is quite
unacceptable because my card is listed as being a
supported video card.

I downloaded the XFree86 3.3.3.1-1.1 updates, installed
them, and now, after Xconfigurator finishes, it doesn't
even run correctly when I do a startx.

Error message is that it cannot connect to the X server,
error number 111.

So I resinstalled XFree86 from the RedHat 5.2 CD-ROM,
and am back to having a "working" install with a "1 meg"
video card again.

Question:
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Are there any alternatives to XFree86 which might actually
support the STB Velocity 128 video card?  If not, might
there be a chance it will be fully supported in the next
Red Hat release?

In the meantime, although I like linux very much, I will
probably go back to Windows 95/98 since they do support
the STB Velocity 128 card.

thanks,

Lee Lynn
Laramie, WY
LeeLynn

Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-04-05 20:12:59 UTC
Have you tried explicitly telling Xconfigurator that you have 8 megs
of video ram?  Run Xconfigurator with the --expert option so that you
may have more control over the parameters.


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