Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)
>>>>> "L" == Leszek Gerwatowski <bigl@cs.tg.com.pl> writes:
L> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:10:06PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
>> Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
>>
>> > I've tried XFree 3.3.5 but it dosn't work for me too. Try Xserver 3.3.4
>> > from www.xfree86.org or packaged for Debian from:
>> >
>> > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/
>> >
>> > (but server from xfree website works for me better than from deb package).
>>
>> None of them worked. Returned the same results. :-(
>> Neither debian packages nor tarball from xfree86 web site had work.
>>
>> Meanwhile I'd downgraded xfree86-common package from 3.3.5 to 3.3.4 and
>> my older XF68_FBDev X server started to work again. This one it's 3.3.2
>> ! At least it works. I don't understand why SVGA doesn't work - at least
>> it's recommended by xfree86 web site.
>>
L> Do you use Xserver-svga 3.3.4 from www.xfree86.org? I've used debian package
L> for it and xserver 3.3.5 in both formats and they didn't worked. But 3.3.4
L> form www.xfree86.org works great. My is 3253081 bytes.
I've seen this as well. I strongly suspect it is due to a gcc/egcs
compilation bug. ie: the gcc2 compiled xserver works and the egcs
compiled xserver doesn't. In the case of the I128 xserver, the
change appears to be between 3.3.3.1 and 3.3.4 deb versions.
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