On Mon Dec 13 1999 at 12:09, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> Has anyone got one of these behaving itself well under X?
> I have one with 4 MB ram, and am getting some weird problems.
>
> When you reboot, the screen is blank - it won't switch on the monitor.
> This is true under DOS, windoze 95, NT, & bash.
>
> I'm running in X at 1024 x 768, at 256 colours. When I go to 800 x 600, or
> 640 X 480 at any colour depth, the desktop icons leave a trail all the way
> across the screen, which kind of spoils the look of the thing I'm on X 3.3.3.1
> and running KDE (but planning to get out of it)
That's nuts. I've used these cards extensively for a couple of years
(at both home and work), and they worked like a charm. (I'm now
running banshee/voodoo3 cards on these boxes). The S3V cards are very
stable, solid, and performance was quite acceptable. I could get
1280x1024x16bpp on a 19" monitor. There is support for these cards in
*two* drivers... both the XF86_SVGA and the XF86_S3V drivers. The S3V
driver probably has better acceleration features than the SVGA driver,
but I never noticed much difference between them. (But note that they
use different "Screen" sections).
If you really need it, I might be able to dig up my old XF86Config
file from my backups/archives for you to hack at.
Meanwhile, I would suggest that you run xf86config or Xconfigurator
(on a redhat box) to redo your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
Cheers
Tony
