Don't know how much thos S3 cards Joost wrote about cost, but it may be
more cost effective to buy AxxeleratedX from Xi Graphics ($99, www.xig.com).
It does support your card/chipset and you can download a demo before
buying to make sure (times out after 10 mins). Install was a piece of
cake, and it works great with my Alliance ProMotion 6422 that was for the
longest time unsupported by XFree and lately only somewhat supported (and
I'm too clueless to be of much help to the XFree developers).
One caveat. If you're using XFree 3.3 (you still need it, you just don't
need the XFree Server) you will have to ungzip your font directories and
then compress them (optional) as recent list traffic suggests. Xi may
have directions for doing this on their website.
Kevin
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Joost_Kooij wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Russ Cook wrote:
>
> > I'm a brand new Linux user, still installing/configuring Debian 1.3.1.
> > I have a Diamond Viper SE PCI video card with the P9100 chipset. I tried
> > installing the XServer_P9000 (I'm not at my machine and don't have the
> > precise name) first, but couldn't get it to work. Reading the Readme, I
> > found out that it does not support the P9100 chipset.
> > Does anyone use the same video card I have?
>
> Probably not with xfree86, as the readme says.
>
> > What XServer have you found to work?
>
> The cards that are supported are mentioned in the release notes for
> xfree86 3.3(.1).
>
> > Can you give hints to set it up?
>
> Yes, join the xfree86 development team ;-)
>
> Get a S3 trio or S3 virge card, those are cheap and well-supported.
>
> Good luck,
>
>
> Joost
>
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