Re: [TCLUG:17357] XFree86 and Hercules monochrome

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

Well, I'm not aware of a distro that has X 4.0 thrown in (though, I only use 
Slackware, so I'm not aware of what is in the other distros).  However, if 
you're not sure which version of X a distro is including, just opt NOT to 
install the X packages and download and install an older version of X.

Gabe


> 
> > From: 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 the list of supported cards for XFree86 4.0 does not list the Hercules
> monochrome card as supported.
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/Status.html
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
> 
> So, unless there is a way to use a Hercules monochrome clone as a frame
> buffer device, I don't know if I can find a way to run X with a modern
> distribution.
> 
> (It's not absolutely required that I run X, but there are some advantages
> to being able to do so.)
> 
> dsc
>  
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