Re: New Gateway G6-450

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a new G6-450 on which I recently installed the S.u.S.E.
> distribution in a dual-boot mode with dos/W98.  I have a 3Dfx Voodoo
> Banshee board with 16 meg of video ram, but I'm only able to set up
> the VGA_16 x-server, and it looks too much like a Win3.1 session... 
> The S.u.S.E. support web page talks about the pre-alpha release of an
> x-server file, but I'm too new at this to know exactly what to do, so
> here are my questions:
> 1) what does everyone think (in general) of the S.u.S.E. distribution?

Very good.  One of the best.

> 2) isn't there an easier way to get my x-server to go more than 16
> colors @ 640x480?

You might have to download a later X server, or later version of XFree86.

> 3) should I stick with my day job?

Depends on what your day job is.  :{)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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