On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:44, Alexandre Strube wrote: > Em Seg, 2003-11-03 às 22:16, Bret Hughes escreveu: > > > Shuttle SK41G - VIA KM266/8235 based with Via Savage 8 video (At least I > > think Via does the video too) > > There was some discussion about Via driver here some days ago. The > actual driver has some problems, which are, > > 1) it does not have DRI, which can compromise performance - obviously > for 3d stuff. > 2) even when configured for 24 bit color depth, it displays in 16-bit > (or some sort of - default redhat background becomes a bunch of blue > bananas under it) > > Via released a open source driver which is supposed to correct this > issues, but this one needs too much work to function under the latest Exactly the sort of stuff I am looking for. Thanks. I caught the tail end of that thread as I subscribed but did not really get it. I will check the archives. Is this list searchably archived somewhere other than redhat? I will try the RH site but I have not had good experiences over the years there :( FWIW I also found this link with a lot of stuff about the sis driver from a guy that claims to be the maintainer of the XFree86 sis driver. I have not had a chance to wade through all of it yet but it looks to be very informative and well laid out: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml Bret _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
