Re: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 01:19:59PM +0100, sdf wrote:
> Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
>
> > I think that at one time (6 weeks ago?) I tried to get this card
> > working for a friend, but I read the docs for the current (at the
> > time) X versions, and that card was not supported. We swapped it with
> > a Banshee 16MB, which worked fine.
>
> Well I'll need to wait till have support for my graphic card.
>
> Actually, XFree86 project says they are still developing support for
> such graphic card and the only available X server it's XF86_VGA16 .
>
> As you could imagine I'm using that. Using 640x480 resolution with 16
> colors makes me remember the old days of my 386sx at 16MHz. :-)
>
Just take a look at very new XFree86 3.3.4 - as I remember it has support
for S3 Trio3D. Just take server (SVGA or S3 or S3V?) from address:
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.4/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/
and give it a chance.
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