[ale] S3 Virge?

[Josh Murrah]

I'm running a Stealth 3d 2000, 4 mb @ 1280 x 1024(?) with 64k colors.
Looks really good, and the S3V Xfree86 is FAST!


Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu wrote:

> On 21 Aug, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > for my card.  Does anyone know if the latest MetroX has a driver for
> >> > this or which Xserver would have it?
> >> 
> >> 	Robert,
> >> 
> >> 	Don't know about the Metro X servers, but, XFree 3.3 does a 
> >> really nice job at supporting my Stealth 3d 3000 (S3 Virge). One 
> >> note, however, despite the  fact that there is an XF86_S3V server, the S3 
> >> Virge chipset support is actually compiled into the XF86_SVGA server. :/
> 
> Actually, it's compiled into both.  On my board (Stealth 3d 2000 4
> megs), the S3V server works better than the SVGA server.  YMMV.
> 
> > Another data point: I installed Linux on one of our Lab machines at Clark
> > Atlanta. Has a S3 virge too. Apparently the 1152x896 resolution doesn't
> > work. It's a bummer because the card I have has 2M of RAM. The 3.3.1 XF86_S3V
> > does not recognize that resolution. Just skips it. The 3.3 SVGA will make
> > a valiant attempt then fail miserably.
> 
> On my system, 1152x864 works fine.  1024x768 only comes up
> initially about 1/2 the time.  I can start in 1152x864, work for a
> while, and then <alt><->, and 1024x768 will then work.  It's quite
> odd....
> 
> BTW, has anyone gotten a Diamond 3d 2000 (4 meg) to work at
> 1024x768x24-bit color?  It's rumored to support it under Win95, but I
> can't get it to do it under X (with either XFree86 server).
> 
> thanks,
> chris
> 
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> Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu
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