[ltp] Debian XFree86 750P, anyone?

[Eben King]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:28, Chris Schumann wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get my 750P working again. It's a 33MHz 486 with 20MB RAM and
> > a 12GB hard drive, and I'm trying to run Debian on it. Well, Debian runs.
> > XFree86 is not usable. It's visible but with 320x200 pixels, you really
> > can't do much.
> You might find this useful.
> http://delenn.tky.hut.fi/amlc/

By my calculations, 1024x768 at 6-bit color should only take up (1024 * 768
* 6/8) B = 589824 B = 576 KB if the video driver is packs the data, or (1024
* 768) B = 786432 B = 768 KB if it does not, leaving 448 KB or 256 KB for
caching.

Theoretically, 640x480 at 1-bit "color" requires only 640x480/8 B = 38400 B 
= 37.5 KB (which should fit into the 64K it _does_ recognize), but I don't 
know if that video driver will do it.  That would at least make X usable.

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