Where can I get a driver for my i740 based card?

Where can I get a driver for my i740 based card?


Author: Aaron Turner
Email: aturner@pobox.com
Web Page: http://www.best.com/~aturner/

System Architecture: Intel
RedHat Release: All/General
FAQ Category: X Windows
Modification Date: Oct 10, 1998

Question:

Where can I get a driver for my i740 based card?

Answer:

Red Hat Software as part of their XBF project has developed a beta version of
a X Windows driver for the Intel i740 chipset.  Due to Intel's requirement of 
a NDA, this driver is distributed in binary form only.  You can obtain the
driver and directions to install it at Red Hat's FTP site:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/

The only "trick" in getting this card to work is the directions which tell
you to use Xconfigurator to configure X to use the driver.  But when you
run Xconfigurator, there isn't an i740XBF option.  The solution is to
create a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin from the XB server to XF86_SVGA (make
sure that the SVGA server isn't installed first!) and then run Xconfigurator
and choose XF86_SVGA.

References:

http://slashdot.org/features/98/09/22/201221.shtml