[GLLUG] Re: Booting into text mode

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:34, Sean wrote:
> I think killing the run-levels is a lot harder then just manually
> launching X when you need it and killing it and restarting when it
> goes wonky.
>
> FWIW RH 6.0 was buggy, like most x.0 RH releases. 6.1 may have the
> bug-fix although i didnt think the diamond stealth cards were that
> well supported since diamond never gave out the tech specs in the
> first place.

Redhat 6.0 used X 3.3.3, which had a number of problems.  X 3.3.6, 
which was in Redhat 6.1, probably fixes this particular problem.  X 
4.1, which is in Redhat 7.1, will probably not just fix the X problems, 
but would also give you a performance boost in X.

I think the Stealth cards used an S3 chipset of some sort.  S3 chipsets 
have never been well-supported under X, though things have improved and 
are usable under the latest versions of X.

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