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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<BR>Starshine Technical Services, <A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A>
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>XFree86 on Trident Providia 9685</H3><p><strong>From Simon Zlachevsky on 13 Jul 1998
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in the</strong>
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<p><strong>Hi, kind of linux guru,
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I was tring to configure my X window manager for
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about two weeks using XFree86, but i didn't get results....
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I have a trident providia 9685 vga card, and a view sonic E51 monitor,
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any advice?
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<p><strong>I also download the latest version of xfree86 and ipgrade my own but
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still without results, so any advice?, hint?, tip? or such
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<p><strong>
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Simon Zlachevsky
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)" width="50" height="28" border="0" lign="bottom"
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>Technically you don't configure your window manager for the
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video card, you configure the X server for the combination
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of video card and monitor that you have, then you configure
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the window manager to suit your prefences within any constraints
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imposed by you X server (and the underlying hardware).
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<blockquote>This card is listed as "supported" by recent versions of
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XFree86 (though the support is listed as "limited" or
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"not maintained). It's also been listed on the
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"<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A> Linux Hardware Compatibility List for Intel"
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(<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/rh42-hardware-intel-10.html"
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>http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/rh42-hardware-intel-10.html</A>)
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since at least version 4.2.
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<blockquote>You don't give any clue as to what the problem is or
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what steps you've taken. Also, as I've pointed out many
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times I'm not much of an eXpert. I'm sorry that the
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XFree86 crew doesn't have an "answer" crew of their own
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--- but you should at least read throught their FAQ
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at: <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org">http://www.xfree86.org</A>
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Unfortunately there don't even appear to be any vendors
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providing commercial technical support for XFree86. That
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might be subsumed in some of the vendors that will sell
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you support for Linux (I would think it would).
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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>You can also read through the LDP "XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO"
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by Eric S. Raymond
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(<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.html"
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>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.html</A>)
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and the more general: XFree86 HOWTO
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(<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.html"
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>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.html</A>).
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 31 August 1998</H5>
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