Re: [TCLUG:17357] XFree86 and Hercules monochrome

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Linux + X on a 386?!  Now I call that pain! ;)  Really though, if you were once
running X on it, then X should still run on it.  They tend to leave in all of
their legacy support (why do you think it's getting so big? :)

Gabe

> 
> At the installfest I hope to revive an old system that can use a
> Hercules-clone video card and monochrome monitor, but I don't know
> what the latest version of XFree86 supports it (and therefore what
> distribution of Linux might support it).
> 
> I had run Linux and X on this box (a 386 with 8 MB of RAM), but I
> would like to run the latest version that works.
> 
> dsc
> 
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