[ale] ViRGE/VX card not Xing in 5.2

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Vernard Martin wrote:

> > During an RH 5.2 install (not upgrade), card is recognized but after the X
> > probing (i.e., after the normal "blinks"), screen goes dark and stays dark.
> > 
> > If I install RH5.1 and UPGRADE to RH 5.2, X works.
> 
> If I remember, correctly, the S3Virge chipsets are supported by both the SVGA
> and the S3V servers. I seems to recall that the XFree86 folks plan to do away
> with the S3V server and merge it totally into the SVGA server which uses the
> XAA architecture for accerlation.

My understanding is that XFree 4.0 has a single server, and a bunch of
acceleration modules which are card specific.  The appropriate module will
get linked in at run-time.

later,
chris

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