Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card
El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 05:14:22 -0600, James Sasitorn dijo:
> Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB
> or set the option for SW_CURSOR
what's that SW_CURSOR option and where can it be set?
El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 07:48:17 -0500, David Z. Maze dijo:
>
> XFree86 didn't even start to support the S3 Trio3D until version
> 3.3.4, IIRC, and the "stable" X releases have only spotty support at
> best. (I've heard reports of the server refusing to work except at
> very specific modelines, but my [PCI] Trio3D refused to work even
> then.) You can get either X source or binaries of the X server from
> xfree86.org, or upgrade to the current Debian release-in-testing
> ("frozen"/"potato", which has XF86 3.3.6); use the XF86_SVGA server.
I'm afraid you're right but...
El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 06:17:18 -0800, Jonathan Nieder dijo:
> Well, I'm prob'ly wrong (hence not sending to the mailing list), but I'd say
> that you'd use the generic svga server.
somehow right but...
I ran xf86config and chose the SVGA server. Since the card is not
listed, I chose a generic S3 TrioV2 (don't ask me why).
The boot would give me a HUGE (and I mean huge) screen for X, so I went
through XF86Setup:
for every mode with a colour depth of 32bpp, 24bpp, and 16bpp I always
get:
Attempting to start server... (twice)
-X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
...
for every mode with a colour depth of 8bpp I always get that HUGE
screen, which is actually just a part of the screen.
I've tried with modes as high as 1600x1200 and as low as 480x300 (and
some others in between), but the result is always the same.
Now, upgrading to potato's 3.3.6 might be a choice, if the upgrade was
straight forward, but we all know this is not so and many things may get
broken. I went through my small private hell when I upgraded to
glibc2.1 and several other potato's libs and progs. I'm just afraid
that this time might be similar somehow (not being adventorous, I know).
Any thoughts?
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