[plug] Aurora & Mandrake 7.2

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Wed Nov 8 10:36:22 WST 2000


Matt wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get Aurora Graphical boot working on
> Mandrake 7.2??

It seems to depend on the card being easily frame-bufferable. Using S3 Virges as
a personal example, about one in four boots in text mode (no Aurora). Don't yet
know
why this should be so.

-- 
"An important attribute to note [...] is the ease with
 which you can write drivers for linux, and the relatively
 powerful debugging infrastructure that linux has. [...]
 Any idiot could write a driver in 2 days [...] -- there
 is no such thing as a 2-day device-driver for NT."
    -- Nat Brown,
       Lead Program Manager, Microsoft OLE/COM Project



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