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  From: Michael Wardle <michael_wardle@hotmail.com>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:00:47 CST

Banshee, TNT2, i740, etc. X server

Hi All

After reading a couple of posts about getting more recent video cards 
working under X, I thought I might tell you what I did to get my Voodoo 
Banshee running on Red Hat Linux 6.0.

Rather than compiling the XFree source, I visited on of XFree86.org's 
mirrors at 
ftp://xfree86.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/XFree86/3.3.4/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/
and downloaded
Xset.tgz
Servers/XSVGA.tgz
Servers/XVG16.tgz
I then copied these files to /usr/X11R6, untarred (tar -xvzf) them
and ran XF86Setup.  I have done this on my machine which has a Creative 
Voodoo Banshee as well as on other machines with newer video cards including 
a TNT2 and an Intel 740 with no problem.

This method does give a binary which may be slightly bigger that one which 
was custom compiled, as it contains all of the SVGA drivers, but has proved 
to work well straight out of the box on many newer systems.

This should also work under different distributions including Mandrake which 
has apparently been causing problems for a few people.

Yours
Michael Bradley Wardle

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