These pages are now served from an older predecessor machine which isn't that healthy either. If you tried in vain to connect over the last few days, my apologies. It works just fine, but the svga xserver binary is a lot bigger than the fbdev one. Fr d ric Pierre kindly supplied a XF86Config file that shows how to use X-Windows with the svga xserver by pretending to have the older Neomagic chip. This works, and just like using the framebuffer device, does not provide hardware acceleration.
Some operations seem faster, some seem slower.
As per an email by Charles Bueche, the information on this webpage also pertains to the new 400 MHz version . Good to know. I think I should just put a boot floppy on that 7 MB partition so that I don't have to rely on Loadlin. It weighs about 6.5 pounds with the cdrom, and is about 1.5 inches thick. You'll find more details on the Dell web site.