Personal Workstation 500 installation
James Carlson writes:
> I'm preparing to install Debian on a Personal Workstation 500a. Given
> what little I know about this, I'm assuming that I ought to be using the
> Miata disks. Am I right? Also, I may as well ask: Is there any chance
> that the video hardware in this machine (a Digital PowerStorm 4D10T) is
> supported by, for example, any X server? Or is it just a Digital name
> on a Other Company, Inc. product?
You are right about the miata disks.
As far as the Digital PowerStorm is concerned, I heard it was not
supported.
But I just saw on
http://www.workstation.digital.com/drivers/graphics/sw4d10.htm that is
is based on a 3Dlab PERMEDIA 2 chip. Suse has contributed a driver for
this graphic chipset (probably included now in Xfree3.3.3).
That does not mean it works now, but there is a small hope, and it
should probably be in some foreseeable future.
If X is really important for you now, or if you cannot afford spending
a lot of time on testing and such, I would still suggest using a
Matrox or another supported card instead.
Loic
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