Video card detection

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.1K blaze of typing glory, dep wrote:
> speaking of which.
> 
> the previously mentioned loss of the root password was in connection 
> with putting a nice g-400, 32-meg card in a machine, the chief purpose 
> of which was to enable opengl. the root password was necessary to run 
> sax2. but the frigging thing would not enable 3-d, claiming that it 
> cannot do so dual-headed. it *is* a dual-headed card, but i had opengl 
> working just fine with it here. of course, when i replaced it i also 
> managed to lose the carefully crafted XF86Config, and suse's tools for 
> configuring a card, to use the technical term, suck.
> 
> anybody here running a matrox g-400? if so, might you send to me, 
> offlist, your XF86Config, so i can sort out what needs to be loaded and 
> what doesn't? i'll get my sister so mail me hers, and i'll do some 
> editing and mail it back, and maybe it can be gotten to work.

I've got one at the office (for a 450, actually, but it should do)
that I'll send you tomorrow.

Kurt
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