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[Georges Jamieson <jamiesons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mathais,

I do not mean in any way to disparage anyone's efforts in writing
drivers for graphics cards. My comment was simply an attempt to
summarize the situation with respect to getting a graphics card to work
under X based on what I read in the bug reports. I upgraded from an ATI
9600 to an ATI 2400 HD and from a one Viewsonic monitor to a newer
Viewsonic monitor. I finally got the vesa driver to work yesterday but
still have no 3D acceleration.

I started with Linux (Slackware) around 1993. Getting X to work has
always been a pain. In spite of much progress in auto detecting cards,
monitors etc, I seem to always have a combination of hardware and
software that requires hours of effort to make X work and it has
recently been getting worse instead of better. I have an ASUS
motherboard a Viewsonic monitor and ATI graphics cards, hardly no name
manufacturers. Lately, none of the live Linux distributions I've tried
work on any of my computers (two desktops, Acer and Compaq laptops and
an Apple Macbook Pro running Parallels). In each case the issue is X.

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