Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server
...ok, so sometimes I let my email ripen a bit before sending it... On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:26:37PM +1200, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: Heather wrote: ...or whichever. That is, if you insist on using the SVGA builtin instead of XF86_S3 or _S3V as applicable. Hi, I have a S3 Virge/MX chipset in my system, Is this a laptop or desktop? I'm confused. so I happened to read through the XFree site about that recently. In the section on the 3.3.6 server, on page: http://www.XFree.org/3.3.6/S3V1.html#1 they say this: 1. Supported hardware Since release 3.3.2 of XFree86, there are now two servers which support the ViRGE family of chips. The XF86_S3V server is a dedicated server which supports the S3 ViRGE (86C325), the ViRGE/DX (86C375), ViRGE/GX (86C385) and the ViRGE/VX (86C988) chips. Use of that server is no longer recommended. It is not actively being supported anymore. The above ViRGE chipsets are supported in the XF86_SVGA server, which includes a new ViRGE driver making use of the XAA acceleration architecture and also supports ViRGE/GX2 (86C357), ViRGE/MX (86C260), Trio3D (86C365), Trio3D/2X (86C362), Savage3D (86C391), Savage4 (86C396/86C397) and Savage2000 chips as of 3.3.6. On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the Savage chips, and it looks as though the XF86_S3V server is obsolete. That's what the docs say. YMMV. My experience, with an S3 ViRGE/VX chipset, was that the SVGA server was buggy -- I could fire of an X session fine, but if I tried launching a second X session -- either simultaneously or after closing the first, my system hung. The fix was to use the S3V X driver. This is documented in a series of Usenet posts I made at the time, starting here: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=455098082 ...despite the usual preference for not carrying on conversations with yourself, I've had several posts over the years from folks who were very happy to find this information. One even mentioned that with two systems, and two ViRGE cards, same spec, from the same manufacturer, one worked with SVGA, the other didn't. Caveat emptor. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgp8O2UQzq8i6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server
On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the Savage chips, and it looks as though the XF86_S3V server is obsolete. H, guess you're right on that. I was running a Savage4-based card in my system some weeks ago, and it only worked well with the SVGA server. We also tried that on a laptop system with Savage4 onboard and had severe problems there both running XF 3.3.6 or one of the S4-modified servers (as XF86_S3SAV by Creative which happens to be a patched XF3.3.3-SVGA-server) and, finally, got the machine working fine there with framebuffer support and the Framebuffer-X-Server... :)) Regards, Kris
RE: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server
I'd be interested in any variants of the XF86_SVGA server for Savage cards that you've got ... X Windows is saying that I'm running a unrecognised S3 chipset ... then defaults to VGA server @ 640x480 Andrew -Original Message- From: rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 3:50 PM To: Bret Comstock Waldow Cc: Heather; Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail); Debian-Laptop (E-mail) Subject: Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the Savage chips, and it looks as though the XF86_S3V server is obsolete. H, guess you're right on that. I was running a Savage4-based card in my system some weeks ago, and it only worked well with the SVGA server. We also tried that on a laptop system with Savage4 onboard and had severe problems there both running XF 3.3.6 or one of the S4-modified servers (as XF86_S3SAV by Creative which happens to be a patched XF3.3.3-SVGA-server) and, finally, got the machine working fine there with framebuffer support and the Framebuffer-X-Server... :)) Regards, Kris
RE: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: I'd be interested in any variants of the XF86_SVGA server for Savage cards that you've got ... X Windows is saying that I'm running a unrecognised S3 chipset ... then defaults to VGA server @ 640x480 Andrew Hello again, Personally, the first server I got my Savage card running with was the XF86_S3SAV which can be found at http://developer.creative.com/linux , filename is XF86_Savage4-1.0.tar.gz. This one's listed there as server for the Creative 3D Blaster which also has a Savage4 chipset on it, but, actually, my Diamond Stealth III worked fine with it. If that doesn't work, you'll find some other Savage-server at http://www.s3planet.force9.co.uk/sections/files/drivers/x/ ...where the current version was posted on May 12. Guess it's the latest Savage driver update I've known so far, especially since there aren't any XF4.0 driver files at the moment... : Hope this helps... If not, would you mind posting me something like a cat /proc/pci or at least the part from there where there's information about your display adapter? Has several Savage chipsets right now, and some are (at least to me) known to be a little difficult to handle even though they're listed as supported in the XF86 driver list... Okay Bye, have a nice day. :) Kris
S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server
Heather wrote: ...or whichever. That is, if you insist on using the SVGA builtin instead of XF86_S3 or _S3V as applicable. Hi, I have a S3 Virge/MX chipset in my system, so I happened to read through the XFree site about that recently. In the section on the 3.3.6 server, on page: http://www.XFree.org/3.3.6/S3V1.html#1 they say this: 1. Supported hardware Since release 3.3.2 of XFree86, there are now two servers which support the ViRGE family of chips. The XF86_S3V server is a dedicated server which supports the S3 ViRGE (86C325), the ViRGE/DX (86C375), ViRGE/GX (86C385) and the ViRGE/VX (86C988) chips. Use of that server is no longer recommended. It is not actively being supported anymore. The above ViRGE chipsets are supported in the XF86_SVGA server, which includes a new ViRGE driver making use of the XAA acceleration architecture and also supports ViRGE/GX2 (86C357), ViRGE/MX (86C260), Trio3D (86C365), Trio3D/2X (86C362), Savage3D (86C391), Savage4 (86C396/86C397) and Savage2000 chips as of 3.3.6. On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the Savage chips, and it looks as though the XF86_S3V server is obsolete. regards, Bret
StarOffice and S3V - solved!
Hi, Like several other persons I experienced a problem of crashing XWindows while trying to run StarOffice (yes, I have S3ViRGE card). By using the SVGA server I could solve the problem but unfortunately Netscape icons looks funny at 24bpp. Recently I noticed that VMWare has a couple of optimized xservers (http://www.vmware.com/support/xfree86.html). I downloaded s3v, changed the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver and everything works as expected now. StarOffice doesn't hang up and Netscape looks great. I hope someone will find this information useful. -- Tad
xserver-s3v package
--quote-- Description: X server for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX-based graphics cards This package provides an X server suitable for use with video cards based on the S3 ViRGE chipset. In most cases, use of this X server is deprecated in favor of the SVGA X server. --quote-- Is there a reason use of this package is deprecated? What can the svga x server package do that this one can't?
Re: xserver-s3v package
Wakko Warner wrote: --quote-- Description: X server for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX-based graphics cards This package provides an X server suitable for use with video cards based on the S3 ViRGE chipset. In most cases, use of this X server is deprecated in favor of the SVGA X server. --quote-- Is there a reason use of this package is deprecated? What can the svga x server package do that this one can't? I'll give this a shot, but its been a long time since I read this (somewhere). Xfree has what they call the XAA, X acceleration architecture. XAA is in the SVGA xserver. This code provides a generic API for accelerating different video cards. Xfree will at some point in the future attempt to provide one xserver (SVGA?) for many of the cards that currently have their own xserver (like S3), i.e. several of the specific video card xservers will go away eventually. Try digging in /etc/doc/xserver-s3 (whatever) and find the README.* there. It might have the explanation. I can't remember where I read this. -- Ed C.
AVISO: server s3v e instalación StarOffice
Este mensaje, no es una pregunta, si no un aviso para quien en la misma situación en la que me encontré yo, no soporte los mismos problemas. Por fin me decido a instalar el StarOffice y cuando termino de bajarlo, lo instalo y me encuentro con problemas: Ejecuto el fichero setup desde las xwindows y se me cuelgan casi nada mas empezar. Intento de todo para arreglarlo y nada, así que desesperado decido cambiar de servidor de las x-windows, pues he oido que el que yo uso tiene algunos bugs y además ya no esta soportado oficialmente, es el s3v (para las s3 virge). Elijo el SVGA, pues dicen que ahora tiene soporte para las s3 virge. ¡Vaya! Ahora si que puedo instalar el StarOffice. En resumen, si tienes una s3 virge y quieres instalar StarOffice, no uses el servidor s3v, USA EL SVGA. Algunos datos: Distribución Linux: Debian 2.0 Versión StarOffice: StarOffice 5.0 personal edition obtenida por download desde ftp://ftp.unex.es/pub/linux/StarOffice Versión Xfree: 3.3.2 Tarjeta Video: S3 Virge (El apellido ya no lo se, pero ni es de las primeras que salieron, ni es de las últimas) Espero que le sirva a alguien. Hasta otra... :-) -- Miguel Gil ** Dirección correo electrónico: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** WEB: Humor Informático Hispano ** * URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2062/index.html * ### Powered by Linux (debian 2.0) ###
Re: Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The memory of the videocard is 4 meg. I have an identical setup, and am running the XF86_SVGA server with 32 bit color. I had some difficulty getting this set up, but it runs fine now. I used XF86Setup to tweak everything, and then when I was done there was a little program (can't remember the name) which allowed you to adjust the image on the monitor (left, right, up, down, etc.) According to /usr/doc/X11/README.S3V: o 32bpp is limited to a width of 1024 pixels. (1024x768 is not possible, even if you have the memory.) This is a hardware limit of ViRGE chips. Are you running at a lower resolution, or are the docs out of date? I have a Stealth 3D 2000 (4MB), and I was never able to get it to run in 1024x768/32bpp, and I assumed based on the docs that I wouldn't be able to. When I tried running X in this configuration, I got an error message that seemed to confirm the problem that was mentioned in the docs. Please email me the appropriate sections of you XF86Config, if you could, so I could try getting 32bpp working on my system. Thanks in advance. BTW, the program you mention is named xvidtune. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNhAdxIdCcpBjGWoFAQGuHQQAtV2P0yJeOPMqmOZlnJx2WPRmo7BGK7vl reeW1emxCxZBf7/HhLmZOUlJqvrG9e3n3lm/ZNMftsqk4nX5sRJbgzEpzgxLWUyd 1J47JmOoXQTDjkoHcHrA/UJxXLVtg0VF3vIgJ3e0qIZXCEClIyIQQlPOCyAPr+O2 oYukoRAtR5Y= =2BqB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color
Hi all,
I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The
memory of the videocard is 4 meg.
With this configuration, I cannot display 24bit color under XF86.
I am pretty sure that my hardware is capable of doing that, as I can do it
under NT.
When I switch the default color depth to 24bit in XF86Config, my
monitor started blinking
Could anyone help me please...
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Re: Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The memory of the videocard is 4 meg. With this configuration, I cannot display 24bit color under XF86. I am pretty sure that my hardware is capable of doing that, as I can do it under NT. When I switch the default color depth to 24bit in XF86Config, my monitor started blinking Could anyone help me please... I have an identical setup, and am running the XF86_SVGA server with 32 bit color. I had some difficulty getting this set up, but it runs fine now. I used XF86Setup to tweak everything, and then when I was done there was a little program (can't remember the name) which allowed you to adjust the image on the monitor (left, right, up, down, etc.) If this isn't sufficient, give me more information, and/or I can send you copies of my setup files, etc. Paul M. Foster
S3Virge video card: SVGA or S3V xserver?
I'm a newbye in Linux and I just installed XFree86 from the last debian distribution. I choose to use the SVGA xserver for my S3Virge video card. Everything works fine but I'm just wondering something I didn't understood in the docs. What are the main differences between the SVGA and S3V xserver for this video card? What would be the best to be installed? Ronan Lebref [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S3Virge video card: SVGA or S3V xserver?
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Ronan LEBREF - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/EST wrote: distribution. I choose to use the SVGA xserver for my S3Virge video card. Everything works fine but I'm just wondering something I didn't understood in the docs. What are the main differences between the SVGA and S3V xserver for this video card? What would be the best to be installed? They're figuring that the SVGA driver will eventually replace S3V. For right now, it's recommended that you use whichever one seems to work better. I've found that SVGA is a little faster with my Diamond 3D 3000, but sometimes crashes if I try to startx again after exiting, so I've learned to run xdm/kdm... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | You say Love is a temple. Love the higher law.| | You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl.| | And I can't be holding on to what you got | | When all you got is hurt. | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
S3 versus S3V
Hello, This is my problem: When I try to start xwindows( for the very first time) I get exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V failed OK, not a problem. My server is XF86_S3. Now, I read this in a help section Setting up the correct default server The default server name is usr/X11R6/bin/X. This is a link to a specific server binary XF86_xxx, located in /usr/X11R6/bin. You should check which server the X link is connected to. If it is not correct, remove it and make a new link to use the correct binary Well that sounds good to meHow do I do that? Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xf86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X But Nothing works What to Do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S3 versus S3V
Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xf86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X You probably want the command ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead. Note capitalization of `f', number of dashes. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will receive free 32MB core files! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S3 versus S3V
On 04 Nov 1997 23:56:23 EST Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xf86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X You probably want the command ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead. Note capitalization of `f', number of dashes. ...but you probably don't want to do that either. /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for debian which calls the correct X server. The correct X server is stored in the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver. The wrapper is setuid root and will open the privileged resources and then drop privileges before exec()ing the real X server. The doc you read is for the standard XFree86 release and should be fixed (you might want to open a bug for that matter). If you already did the symbolic link (and removed the wrapper), just reinstall xbase. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S3 versus S3V
Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V failed OK, not a problem. My server is XF86_S3. Now, I read this in a help section Setting up the correct default server Debian doesn't set up the X server this way. Try reinstalling the X server (maybe xbase first), or just running /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-s3.postinst, or editing /etc/X11/Xserver. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc Neniu anticipas la hispanan Inkvizicion. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S3 versus S3V
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On 04 Nov 1997 23:56:23 EST Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xf86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X You probably want the command ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead. Note capitalization of `f', number of dashes. ...but you probably don't want to do that either. /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for debian which calls the correct X server. The correct X server is stored in the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver. The wrapper is setuid root and will open the privileged resources and then drop privileges before exec()ing the real X server. The doc you read is for the standard XFree86 release and should be fixed (you might want to open a bug for that matter). If you already did the symbolic link (and removed the wrapper), just reinstall xbase. And after you do that, check carefully the file /etc/X11/Xserver to make certain that the top line is what it should be, which is really where your problem probably is. On a more general note, I find this problem often of Debian being different from the rest of the world and the documentation not necessarily reflecting that. The only solution I've found is to constantly read the /usr/doc/*/README.debian files each time I install a new package (this isn't actually that much of a burden, as they're usually pretty short). Is there somewhere a list of differences (in at least some Debian pacckages) between the Debian way of doing things and the way documented in HOWTOs, etc.? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote: A couple of months ago I convinced a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works. He's got an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list about similar problems. The archives at ftp.debian.org don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in the June archive. Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone. I have an S3Virge card and have XFree86 3.3 working fine, now. Two things to try: - Use the new svga server instead of the s3v server. It works much better for me. - Give the existing XF86Config another name and rerun xf86setup. If it still doesn't work, look at the output of the xserver on the console and repost if there is something unusual in it. Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V
In a message dated 97-07-21 17:29:27 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A couple of months ago I convinced a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works. He's got an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list about similar problems. The archives at ftp.debian.org don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in the June archive. Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone. I have an S3Virge card and have XFree86 3.3 working fine, now. Two things to try: - Use the new svga server instead of the s3v server. It works much better for me. - Give the existing XF86Config another name and rerun xf86setup. If it still doesn't work, look at the output of the xserver on the console and repost if there is something unusual in it. Joost I agree, the svga server is much better with the Virge chipset then the s3v server. I just bought a video card with the virge chipset, I haven't had a chance to try it on my own system yet. (I can't get debian Linux to read from my @#$% CD-ROM) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote: [cut] Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone. They're there, I just downgraded myself. Look in rex-fixed or something like that. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V
Bob Clark wrote: A couple of months ago I convinced a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works. He's got an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list about similar problems. The archives at ftp.debian.org don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in the June archive. Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone. Try redoing 'xf86config'. I have an s3 (#9 771) card and X did not work first time for me. All I did was go through xf86config and save it as normal and it worked. Seems to go a bit faster as well, maybe the definitions of the card(s) have been improved ?? -- John Stevenson 3rd Yr BSc Soft. Eng. ** Staff/Student Representative ** E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4215605 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree86-3.3 and S3V
A couple of months ago I convinced a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works. He's got an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list about similar problems. The archives at ftp.debian.org don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in the June archive. Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible solutions. I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone. Thanks, --Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
S3V
Help would be appreaciated I am running debian 1.2 on a box with a S3 Virge card 4 mb. Runs fine with 8 bitplanes at 1280x1024, but how do I get 16 bitplanes ? Michael -- Associate professor Michael Gajhede, Department of Chemistry, Universitetsparken 5, Copenhagen University, 2100 Copenhagen Denmark. tlf 45-35320280, fax 45-35320299 internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: S3V
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Michael Gajhede wrote: Dear Michael, Help would be appreaciated I am running debian 1.2 on a box with a S3 Virge card 4 mb. Runs fine with 8 bitplanes at 1280x1024, but how do I get 16 bitplanes ? The support of the S3 Virge Chip is very new. I am not shure wether 16 aka hicolor is already supported in case it is please start your Xsession with 'startx -- -bpp 16' from your text console Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades -- Edwin Huffstutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os ! Worked for me all the times. -- Linus Torvalds -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
