From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 18 09:38:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21822 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:38:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21644 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id MAA02559; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:36:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980218123643.59849@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:36:43 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: morgarws@molbio.sbphrd.com Cc: neswold@fnal.gov, capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 Virge/DX video card References: <9802181540.AA28232@phu891.um.us.sbphrd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <9802181540.AA28232@phu891.um.us.sbphrd.com>; from William S. Morgart on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 10:40:10AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 10:40:10AM -0500, William S. Morgart wrote: > FYI > --- > Support for the S3 Virge/DX card is present and works in XFree86 3.3.1 > in both the SVGA and S3V servers, but ... the S3 Virge/DX is new so > previous versions* are not likely to support it. > > The SVGA server with the XAA support is supposed to be a faster > server (according to the XFree release notes) than the S3V server. > > > * I'm not sure when support wasadded but since the card is fairly new > I'd be willing to bet that it's only supported in 3.3.1 ... > > ** I'm running a generic S3 Virge/DX card under FreeBSD 3.0-SMP with > XFree 3.3.1 and it works fine although I haven't tried it at 16bpp and > 32bpp. > > > Regards, > > Bill Morgart > morgarws@molbio.sbphrd.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message I am running in 24bpp mode (1280x1024) with the latest S3V driver and have not experienced any problems. Here's an excerpt from /etc/XF86Config. Section "Device" Identifier "S3-Virge VX" VendorName "Diamond" BoardName "Stealth 3D 3000" #VideoRam 4096 -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message