My lucky day/Glint?

[Jon_norstog]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:11 -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Hi, Jon,
> 
> 1. The "glint" driver, along with all the other "specialized"
>    VGA drivers, is NOT on the current test ISO. The "vesa" driver
>    appears to work reasonably, on Radeon and Permedia cards I've
>    tried, though there's not much acceleration.
> 
> 2. You should add a "monitor" section to the xorg.conf that accurately
>    reflects your attached monitor.
> 
> 3. You can download the specific drivers via "yum" from the Austrian
>    repository:
> 
>     http://buildsys.zero42.at/mash/f8/alpha/os
> 
>    If you are using a recent test ISO, that may already be set up
>    in /etc/yum.repo.d/alphacore.repo.
> 
> 4. The following are the common drivers for PCI cards in Alphas:
> 
>    xorg-x11-drv-ati        # Radeon etc
>    xorg-x11-drv-glint      # Permedia 2 and 3
>    xorg-x11-drv-mga        # Matrox millennium etc
>    xorg-x11-drv-s3*        # S3 and S3ViRGe
>    xorg-x11-drv-tdfx       # 3DFx Voodoo3 etc
> 
> 5. "konquerer" comes on the ISO, but "firefox" is available in the repo.
> 
> 6. Use the repo to install "pirut", the GUI software package installer.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> --Jay++
> 
 Thanks, Jay

It snowed like crazy and all the Tribal offices are closed.  I get to
stay home and play.

later

jn