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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:36:43 -0500
From:      Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To:        morgarws@molbio.sbphrd.com
Cc:        neswold@fnal.gov, capriotti@geocities.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: S3 Virge/DX video card
Message-ID:  <19980218123643.59849@emu.sourcee.com>
In-Reply-To: <9802181540.AA28232@phu891.um.us.sbphrd.com>; from William S. Morgart on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 10:40:10AM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218092359.9747A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov> <9802181540.AA28232@phu891.um.us.sbphrd.com>

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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
> 
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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.

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