On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Jonathon Conte wrote:
>> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>> To: SLUG Mailing List <slug@nks.net>
>> Subject: [SLUG] kernel source
>> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:15:41 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> <snip>
>> In the meantime, are there any other X drivers I could use until that's up,
>> down to and including plain VGA? Framebufffer? 800x600 SVGAP?
>>
>> I tried "nv", but apparently the version I have doesn't support this GPU
>> (Geforce 7600GS). How do I get a more recent one? I went to (a mirror of)
>> x.org, but they don't have binaries and the source is in some system called
>> "git". What do I do with that?
>> <snip>
>
> Try using the "vesa" driver in Xorg.conf.
Houston, we have X.
Yay, TY.
It's at 800x600. Is that as big as it goes?
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