Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:53:33 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: neswold@fnal.gov Cc: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 Virge/DX video card Message-ID: <19980218105333.09607@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218092359.9747A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov>; from Richard M. Neswold on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 09:30:23AM -0600 References: <3.0.32.19980218061444.009144c0@pop.mpc.com.br> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218092359.9747A-100000@spiv.fnal.gov>
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On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 09:30:23AM -0600, Richard M. Neswold wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Capriotti wrote:
>
> > I'm havin problems to make a brandless S3 Virge/DX 4MB EDORAM card to work
^^^^^^
This could be the source of the corruption you're seeing -- the EDO ICs
just do *not* perform as well as real video RAM, but they're cheaper and
that's probably why they're used on a ``brandless'' card.
--
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.
> > with X.
> >
> > Anyone out there w/ the same problem ? Any solution ?
>
> I had problems using the S3V server; there was constant video corruption and
> the fonts in the virtual terminals were blasted beyond recognition.
> According to the XFree86 documentation, the SVGA server has better support
> for the ViRGE chips than the S3V server. It also mentions that future
> versions of the S3V server will incorporate the code from the SVGA server.
>
> Anyways, I now use the SVGA server. It recognizes the ViRGE/DX chip and
> performs very well. One bad point: I can't get 32/24 bpp to work without
> some video corruption -- but 16 bpp works fine...
>
> Rich
>
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