From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 23:00:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15442 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nethead.com (nethead.com [207.66.135.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15427 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@wharfrat.nethead.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by nethead.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id XAA03637; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:00:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:00:10 -0700 (PDT) From: BSD lists mailbox To: Joe cc: "Michael G." , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Need opinion on X and an S3 Virge/DX video card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been running SuSE Linux with the S3 Virge/DX and GX cards for over a year with XFree and have had no problems.. It's kind of my perfered one now and I'll be using it with bsd now that I'm working for a bsd shop. What a bummer.. having to move from a linux shop to a bsd shop.. whatever will I do ;) -Joe Hamelin On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Michael G. wrote: > > > I've gone and changed computers and have yet to load > > FreeBSD..will probably wait till 3.0 in a month or > > so..however, I have used Solaris 2.6 and found it doesn't > > support my S3 Virge/DX video card (4 megs RAM)... Looking > > for a heads-up, has anyone successrully used this chipset > > in an "S3" card successfully with X? > > > Yes, with XFree 3.3.2. I use the S3V server but it's also supported by the > SVGA server as well. You can get more info at http://www.xfree86.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message