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[Felix Miata]

Nils Kassube composed on 2014-11-09 09:22 (UTC+0100):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> That's one of the less popular and less well supported video devices.

> That's a very diplomatic description. :)

That is what I was going for, trying extra hard to be nice. :-)

>> Alternatively to live media booting are such options
>> as installing in a VM,

> I think that wouldn't work because the video hardware of the VM is 
> emulated. You would have to run on the real hardware to check for bugs 
> in the video driver.

Oops, silly me. Testing on real hardware is exactly why I have so many
different working puters here. :-p

Then again, neither a CPU nor a motherboard BIOS as old as his would have any
support for virtualization in hardware, so any pure software VM used for any
purpose might be a frustrating experience, if it works at all.
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