[ale] Video Wars

[Steven A. Duchene]

Posts regarding problems getting a Diamond Stealth64 Video Vram to work
with XFree86:
> I got this working right last night. Turned out the key was an option:
> "slow_vram". Sounds kinda bad but it works now. I have the 968 chip.
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Incidentally, I wonder what the pros and cons of supplying various options
> in XFConfig versus allowing the server to probe for the values? Really,
> the probe finds nearly all the information; why not just leave it out
> of the config file?
> 
	What version is your Xserver (you can see what this is from the
Xserver startup messages)? If your not running a current version (3.1.2
or newer, latest is 3.1.2e) you need to upgrade since the newer versions
include fixes for this exact problem.

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