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>Installing RedHat 7.0 and a driver for the Chipset Cirrus CL-GD5436</H3>
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<p align="right"><strong>Answer By Wilf
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Hello and Good'ay,
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Installing RedHat 7.0 was nothing special though programmes seem to run a bit
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faster than under RedHat 6.0... but:
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Althoug RH 7.0 does recognize the graphics chipset Cirrus CL-GD5436 (on a
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Compaq Deskpro 2000) it does not provide the correct driver as RH 6.0
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does (though after a long and despairing search I found the information that
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the driver was no longer included in "XF86_SVGA-3.3.6-33.rpm" shipped with RH
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7.0). The mouse pointer under X (I use WindowMaker) was displayed as a
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barrecode found on products, windows overlapped and were redrawn in a rather
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chaotical and randomly manner. Other Window Managers (<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</A> or <A HREF="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</A>) did not
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display it any better.
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Falling back to RH 6.0 or coping with this particular problem? I did both, but
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used some (perhaps not necessary force) to install RH 7.0 all the same.
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I first installed RH 7.0 and configured graphics display with default values.
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After installing and BEFORE calling up a graphical display with "startx" I
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force-installed the driver from RH 6.0 with:
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rpm -i XF86_SVGA-3.3.3.1-49.rpm --force
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and -much to my delight and would ya believe it, matey?- all possible mode of
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graphical displays (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768, all 16bits colour) now work
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as expected: very good indeed!
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In the event that this procedure could have been done otherwise, I'd appreciate
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a comment.
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Yours Linuxely,
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Wilf
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P.S. I take it that section "2 cent tips" rather means "2 US &cent; Tips" or are you
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talking EURO &cent;? Mind you, it's just a thought ...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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[Heather] Well, the usage comes from an idiom for "putting in our two cents
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worth" -- cheerfully offered advice, not always wanted, sometimes useful.
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So, if you have a local idiom that expresses the same concept but uses a
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different chunk of change, then you know the exchange rate
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<IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=";P"
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Our friends
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in the UK can surely use Tuppence Tips.
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Forcing the old series rpm into place in this fashion is just the right
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thing here. You should be safely able to apply X parts from 6.2
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... XFree86-3.3.6-20.i386.rpm ... as an upgrade (<TT>-U</TT>) to the 3.3.3 you
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successfully installed, if you like.
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