Thread: REDHAT LINUX 9
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Old 01-17-2008, 06:33 AM
Peter T. Breuer
 
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Default Re: REDHAT LINUX 9

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:


>> No they don't. I have/had one on one of my portable. Both vesa and the
>> standard nv worked just fine. And anyway, your advice is bad in
>> general, whether or not it applies here, so it's bad advice , and thank
>> you. Now just put your advice where your clap is.


> Yes, they do. Try the new Toshiba 6100 series of laptop with a screen
> resolution over 1280x1024, or a Geforce4 add-on card with a Mitsubishi
> 2060 monitor at any setting over 800x600.


The laptop will need special treatment, but should be fine with the
vesa driver (I have two toshibas, and one of them is nvidia, but I
forget which one ... anyway, I used vesa with it until a native driver
appeared for card, and had no problems). The monitor is irrelevant to
the question - you can always run a monitor at any speed you choose up
to the cards maximum clock speed.

> Inexperienced git.


Keep your rude words to yourself and apply them to yourself. I've
invented more modelines than you've had paydays.

>> Utter pishwallop. And who cares, given that vesa works fine.


> Because it doesn't. The Vesa drivers are pretty good, but far from


It does. Not only does nobody care about "published modifications",
"complete", or "up to date", but the driver works fine, by definition,
just by the nature of things.

> complete or up-to-date with the latest Nvidia published modifications.


Peter
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