Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 11:16:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: davidg@autodebit.com (David Green-Seed) Cc: cr@jcmax.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 video cards Message-ID: <199806200916.LAA05190@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <71D507C37988D11182ED0000F80462AC0EE44D@adsdevelop2.autodebit.com> from David Green-Seed at "Jun 19, 98 02:32:58 pm"
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In reply to David Green-Seed who wrote:
> I don't know if this is related, but I've noticed that my S3 Virge DX based
> video card tends to have intermittant problems - it appears as if fonts get
> corrupted. I haven't been able to determine what causes it.
> This occurs under Windows 95, NT and FreeBSD (far less often with FreeBSD)
> and appears to be fixable by switching video modes. The symptom exists with
> both 64MB and 128MB. (It's a 4MB card)
>
> Any insights would be appreciated.
I think that might be driver problems, XFree86 at least have had problems
with the ViRGE/DX cards, and I've seen a lot of bad win95 drivers too.
The latest 3.3.2 XfreeBSD SV3 server seems pretty stable here, only
a wee bit pixel errors now and then if I move things too fast around.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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