S3ViRGE probs/soln at high bpp & keymap question
hiya i had some problems with xfree86 (debs, v 4.0.1-1) and a Genesis S3 ViRGE 86c325, and initially it only did 8bpp with the dexter generated XF86Config-4. (XF86Config, XFree86 log and lspci -v | grep VGA are all below). at higher bpps (16 and 24 at 1152x864 or whatever) i got horizontal mangling. all settings are the same as for 3.3.6 otherwise. fix for me was to try copying the 16bpp entry in XF86Config to a 15bpp entry - this worked fine and gave me more than a couple hundred colours; hope that helps anyone else having the same problem for the meantime. i have another card of the same here which i can try if that's any help, but this works for me at the moment. i still can't get XFree86 to recognise my meta key however. have tried installing a complete xmodmap file for a microsoft natural (which i believe my kb to be a clone of, and this driver worked fine under 3.3.6) in /etc/X11/Xmodmap and ~/.Xmodmap (and ~/.xmodmap-`uname -a` too), but it doesn't seem to pick up. has anyone else had this problem and found a cure? i've currently got task-helix-gnome installed; apt-get install task-x-window-system wants to remove task-helix-gnome and gdm and friends so i haven't run it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo apt-get -u install task-x-window-system libglide3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: lbxproxy libdps-dev libdps1 libxaw7 proxymngr xdm xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-pex xfwp xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xnest xprt xspecs xvfb The following packages will be REMOVED: gdm mesag3-glide2 quake-3dfx task-helix-core task-helix-gnome xproxy The following NEW packages will be installed: lbxproxy libdps-dev libdps1 libglide3 libxaw7 proxymngr task-x-window-system xdm xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-pex xfwp xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xnest xprt xspecs xvfb 0 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 6 to remove and 20 not upgraded. Need to get 6429kB of archives. After unpacking 12.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] do i need the packages listed above to solve these problems at all? can't see anything useful there but IANADPM ;) cheers, chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo lspci -v | grep VGA 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # File generated by xf86config. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection "extmod" Option"omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load"type1" Load"freetype" # This loads the GLX module ## cmb changed this Load "glx" EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section "Files" # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other # programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory # to the end of this list (or comment them out). # #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" ## cmb changed this FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/" # The module search path. The default path is shown here. #ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" EndSection # ** # Server flags
S3ViRGE probs/soln at high bpp & keymap question
hiya i had some problems with xfree86 (debs, v 4.0.1-1) and a Genesis S3 ViRGE 86c325, and initially it only did 8bpp with the dexter generated XF86Config-4. (XF86Config, XFree86 log and lspci -v | grep VGA are all below). at higher bpps (16 and 24 at 1152x864 or whatever) i got horizontal mangling. all settings are the same as for 3.3.6 otherwise. fix for me was to try copying the 16bpp entry in XF86Config to a 15bpp entry - this worked fine and gave me more than a couple hundred colours; hope that helps anyone else having the same problem for the meantime. i have another card of the same here which i can try if that's any help, but this works for me at the moment. i still can't get XFree86 to recognise my meta key however. have tried installing a complete xmodmap file for a microsoft natural (which i believe my kb to be a clone of, and this driver worked fine under 3.3.6) in /etc/X11/Xmodmap and ~/.Xmodmap (and ~/.xmodmap-`uname -a` too), but it doesn't seem to pick up. has anyone else had this problem and found a cure? i've currently got task-helix-gnome installed; apt-get install task-x-window-system wants to remove task-helix-gnome and gdm and friends so i haven't run it. [chris@athena ~]$ sudo apt-get -u install task-x-window-system libglide3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: lbxproxy libdps-dev libdps1 libxaw7 proxymngr xdm xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-pex xfwp xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xnest xprt xspecs xvfb The following packages will be REMOVED: gdm mesag3-glide2 quake-3dfx task-helix-core task-helix-gnome xproxy The following NEW packages will be installed: lbxproxy libdps-dev libdps1 libglide3 libxaw7 proxymngr task-x-window-system xdm xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-pex xfwp xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xnest xprt xspecs xvfb 0 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 6 to remove and 20 not upgraded. Need to get 6429kB of archives. After unpacking 12.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] do i need the packages listed above to solve these problems at all? can't see anything useful there but IANADPM ;) cheers, chris [chris@athena ~]$ sudo lspci -v | grep VGA 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) [chris@athena ~]$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # File generated by xf86config. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection "extmod" Option"omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load"type1" Load"freetype" # This loads the GLX module ## cmb changed this Load "glx" EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section "Files" # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other # programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory # to the end of this list (or comment them out). # #FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" ## cmb changed this FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/" # The module search path. The default path is shown here. #ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" EndSection # ** # Server flags section. #
