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From: Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com>
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Subject: Re: kde
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	that's the plan we've got a couple of differnet non-S3* cards 
	on order.  The machine is for testing a proof of concept....
	now that we know that the video card is the problem we can
	get back to business.....


	thanks all 

Quoting Mike Smith (mike@smith.net.au)
On Subject: Re: kde
Date: Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:19:42PM -0800

> 
> S3V cards are all 100% suspect; I've seen them cause innumerable
> problems (basic hardware issues).  If at all possible dump the card and
> use something else.
> 
> > we were using 800x600 24bit on a 2Meg card we dropped that to 800x600x16bit
> > we are now trying a differnet S3V card .... 
> > 
> > We are suspecting its the card but when a card is CAD$30 we had to give it 
> > a try..... 
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting Amancio Hasty (hasty@rah.star-gate.com)
> > On Subject: Re: kde
> > Date: Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 12:34:04AM -0800
> > 
> > > Sounds like an Xserver or harware problem . Whats your card and the color depth
> > > that you are running with X server with?
> > > 
> > > 	Amancio
> > > 
> > 
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