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RE: How do I run it?
- From: perryh at pluto dot rain dot com (Perry Hutchison)
- To: huntharo at msu dot edu
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 02 21:58:58 PDT
- Subject: RE: How do I run it?
- >received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2011117)id AA07123; Sat, 20 Apr 02 21:58:58 PDT
> I don't know that the Windows 95 CD will be of help, but
> I found Trident's page for the card:
> http://www.tridentmicro.com/drivers/download/tgui9440.html
>
> The Windows 95 driver is here:
> http://www.tridentmicro.com/drivers/download/tgui_tvga/w95-9440.exe
>
> Hope that helps. Let me know if this fixes the problem.
Yes, that fixes it. The "Trident SVGA" driver on the original Windows
95 (OSR2) CD works after a fashion, but the version 4.something from
this download is considerably better. I was amazed to discover that
the ancient unknown-origin monitor I've been using handles 1024x768
with no trouble :)
I've still got some xauth issues to work through when connecting
from other hosts, but that's generic X rather than CygWin/XFree.
Now to track down a CygWin port of fvwm2 ...