Re: [Newbie]S3 Trio 3d and repeating screen
Have a look at these :
http://xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-July/010102.html
http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/pages/virge.html.
the X maintainers for debian could probably take a squiz as well.
good luck
Mark
> From: "Kelley Terry" <kelleyterry@sisna.com>
> To: <newbie@XFree86.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 6:43 PM
> Subject: [Newbie]S3 Trio 3d and repeating screen
>
> When XFree 4.0x first came out it worked fine on my linux-mandrake 7.2
> distribution but with newer versions it has this problem with displaying
> the right 2/3 of the screen. The left third of the screen is correct
> but then the last inch of that portion is repeated five - six times to
> fill up
> the right 2/3 of the screen.
> Changing the resolution only changes the number of repeated portions
> that fit in. Changing the depth from 24 to 16 has no effect. I tried
> to take a screen snapshot to show the effect but the snapshot comes out
> correct - i.e. the whole desktop is there! The cursor is unaffected by
> this also (not repeated) and can even access the windows and icons on
> the affected portion of the desktop. It's hard to guess exactly the
> icons are when you can't see them though. I've been trying XFree 4.1.0.
> Attached is my XF86config-4 file.
> Any ideas or a fix sure would help. I like the higher resolution and
> depth I first got with XFree 4.0 but now have to use XFree 3.3.6.
> If further hardware or further software info is needed please let me know
> and I'll gladly send it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> ---------------------
> Kelley Terry <kelleyterry@sisna.com>
> It said use windows 95 or better so I loaded Linux!
> In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
>
>
> --------------030404010709070405010604
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> name="XF86Config-4"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filename="XF86Config-4"
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "unix/:-1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "pex5"
> Load "record"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "dri"
> Load "glx"
> Load "xie"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "LKM"
> ModelName "3280"
> Horizsync 30-70
> VertRefresh 47-104
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> ### Available Driver options are:-
> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> ### [arg]: arg optional
> #Option "slow_edodram" # [<bool>]
> #Option "slow_dram" # [<bool>]
> #Option "fast_dram" # [<bool>]
> #Option "fpm_vram" # [<bool>]
> #Option "pci_burst" # [<bool>]
> #Option "fifo_conservative" # [<bool>]
> #Option "fifo_moderate" # [<bool>]
> #Option "fifo_aggressive" # [<bool>]
> #Option "pci_retry" # [<bool>]
> #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
> #Option "early_ras_precharge" # [<bool>]
> #Option "late_ras_precharge" # [<bool>]
> #Option "lcd_center" # [<bool>]
> #Option "set_lcdclk" # <i>
> #Option "set_mclk" # <freq>
> #Option "set_refclk" # <freq>
> #Option "show_cache" # [<bool>]
> #Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
> #Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
> #Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
> #Option "UseFB" # [<bool>]
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "s3virge"
> VendorName "S3"
> BoardName "Trio3D"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
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