Re: OpenStep: Advice Needed

[Stefan Böhringer]

Hello,

there are some some AGP-drivers available (Matrox, ATI). However the
supported cards are old (for ATI you must use <= Rage LT; Rage 128 won't
work). Still you have the option of using the generic VESA driver.
Unfortunately it's VESA1.0, so you have to live with 60Hz, sometimes
interlaced.
I wonder wether anybody has tried the VESA1.0 driver under VMware.
Perhaps it will deny the refresh rate change. To get OPENSTEP up and
running in a modern environment I would recommend the Windows-Version
(this works for 98/ME/NT, don't know about 2k/XP). Honestly I don't
recall about the conversion scripts which are essential in our case (can
anybody tell?). If you are not liable to UNIXisms you will have
excellent compatibility.
Just one sidenote: The scripts were at least partially Perl. Perhaps
(which I had to check) the whole conversion process might be cut out of
the OPENSTEP environment (except for the nib files).
Back some time there was some initiative of Web-based nib-conversion.
This initiative, unfortunatly never came into being.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes, Stefan


On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 10:12, mirko.viviani@rccr.cremona.it wrote:
> You wrote:
> 
> > I run Openstep Mach/4.2 on a 1.8 GHz Pentium IV with 512Mb, IDE/ATAPI
> [...]
> > The graphics card is the limitation.  New cards do not have drivers.  There
> > is no AGP support.
> 
> There is not such limitation. My driver works great with Matrox AGP cards up
> to G450
> 
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