Eric N. Valor wrote: > I've tried stepping through the archives, but the lack of a search > engine means that I have to manually parse 80+ megs of information > (this takes a human quite a long time).
Have you tried using something like google to search through the archives ? I've found that works quite well. > For more information, the card is using the S3 Virge/GX2 chip. > I have a Number Nine Reality 334 (4mb, AGP) which I'm trying to run with > Debian (Woody). I've set the resolution to 1024x768 at 16bpp. Everything > seems to work fine except when I try to pop open an Xterminal. At that > point, XF86_SVGA goes to 98% CPU utilization (I'm on a dual-850 PIII) and > the whole system locks up. After almost a minute it comes back, but doing > anything like "ls /etc" causes the same behavior. > > Other windows, such as a web browser, are not affected in this way. > > When I set the color depth to 8bpp everything seems OK, but the color > definition is pretty crappy. This card, when used in a Windoze box, can do > 1024x768 at 16 all day long. Am I really stuck at 256 colors? > > Nothing is thrown in the logs to indicate an error. Delays like that can happen when the disk or memory is full, I take it that isn't the case here. Admittedly that doesn't sound likely if it works in 8bit. XF86_SVGA is from XFree86 version 3. Have you tried using the s3virge driver in XFree86 version 4 ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
