From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Jun 20 02:16:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01324 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 02:16:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01318 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 02:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05190; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 11:16:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806200916.LAA05190@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: S3 video cards In-Reply-To: <71D507C37988D11182ED0000F80462AC0EE44D@adsdevelop2.autodebit.com> from David Green-Seed at "Jun 19, 98 02:32:58 pm" To: davidg@autodebit.com (David Green-Seed) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 11:16:14 +0200 (CEST) Cc: cr@jcmax.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message