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Several weeks ago I sent an email concerning my
inability to switch from X windows to the virtual console using Ctrl+Alt+F1. I
own a Viewsonic P810 21" monitor and an S3 Trio 2D/4X video adapter. It appears
that the problem is cause the use of the wrong X server: when I started using
xserver-svga instead of xserver-xfree86, the problem disappeared. I hope this is
a helpful hint for other users who experienced the same problem I
did.
There is however, one
unexplained problem: I have 8 MB of RAM on the adapter (according to Windows
98), but Linux-based probing software can only detect 4 Mb. Furthermore, when I
set up X to use all 8192 Kb of ram on the card (using dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-svga), my sprite turns into a usually white square. When I tell X to use
only 4096 Kb of ram, the problem is solved, but the card cannot handle high
refresh rates. Any ideas?
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