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From: "Shoma & Ash Yadav" <shomash@mbox4.singnet.com.sg>
To: "Norman C Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>, <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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Subject: Re: changing screen res in X
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:29:43 +0800
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Norman / Alex,
I have tried using the S3 server but that bombs out with the following
errors ...

S3V: PCI: unknown ( please report), ID 0x88c1 rev 0, Linear FB@0x40000000
S3V: Unknown S3 Chipset: chip_id = 0xc1 rev.1

Ash ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To: Shoma & Ash Yadav <shomash@mbox4.singnet.com.sg>
Date: Thursday, January 01, 1998 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: changing screen res in X


>On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 03:15:14PM +0800, Shoma & Ash Yadav wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>> The machine has a S3 Vision 864 chipset ( which is what I got from
>
>I haven't been following this real closely, but have you tried using
>the XF86_S3 driver (accelerated driver)? You will need to change the
>symbolic link for X.
>
>[snip]
>
>> >On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:30:05PM +0800, Shoma & Ash Yadav wrote:
>> >>
>> >> John, Doug, Alex
>> >> Thanx a lot for your replies ... and wish U all a Hap-Hap-Happy New
Year
>> ...
>> >> But ... I am still unable to get my SVGA display to go beyond the
320x200
>> >> that it defaults to. Even after removing the 320x200 entry for 8 bit
>> depth
>> >> in SVGA definitions in XF86Config . If anyone out there has managed to
>> run
>> >> the X server on a dell VS 17X monitor attached to a Dell Optiplex 590
cd
>> u
>> >> pls send me a copy of your XF86Config file.
>> >
>> >Sorry, I haven't been following this thread.  Is this a machine with a
>> >NeoMagic chipset?  If so, you're out of luck: XFree86 doesn't support
>> >it.  You should be able to run 640x480 four colours, though.  The
>> >alternative is the XI Graphics server, which costs Real Money.
>> >
>> >If that's not the problem (i.e. you have a different chip set), let's
>> >see the output of the startx command.
>> >
>> >Greg
>
>--
>Regards,
>Norman C. Rice, Jr.