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Subject: Re: S3 video cards
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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.
> 

Don't try to use S3V driver with xdm. In this case, sometimes when you
logout, system completely hang. With SVGA driver my ViRGE/DX work fine
about 2 month.

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