On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 12:45, Pixel wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 17:54, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > > > > It needs to default to using X 4.3 with the s3virge (not just s3, note) > > > > driver. I got him to switch to this setup and KDE now works. > > > > [...] > > > > Card:S3 86c368 (Trio3D/2X): S3 Inc.|86c368 [Trio3D/2X] > [DISPLAY_VGA] > > > > (vendor:5333 device:8a13) > > [...] > > > Still doesn't give sufficient weight to the genuine bug of X 3.3.6 being > > default for the Trio3D. Even if KDE *did* work with X 3.3.6, X 3.3.6 > > shouldn't be the default for a card that is fully supported by X 4.3.0. > > i didn't know that s3virge now handled s3 cards. Are all S3 cards now > handled by XFree4?
>From www.xfree86.org's S3 compatibility page, http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/Status29.html#29 : Support (accelerated) for the 964 (revisions 0 and 1), 968, Trio32, Trio64, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and PLATO/PX is provided by the "s3" driver (however, only models using the IBM RGB 524, Texas Instruments 3025, or an internal TrioDAC RAMDAC chip are supported). Support (accelerated) for the ViRGE, ViRGE/VX, ViRGE/DX, ViRGE/GX, ViRGE/GX2, ViRGE/MX, ViRGE/MX+, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X is provided by the "s3virge" driver. Support (accelerated) for the Savage3D, Savage3D/MV, Savage4, Savage2000, and SuperSavage, is provided by the "savage" driver. Support for the other S3 chipsets has not yet been ported. This card is a Trio3D, and I identified the s3virge driver as correct from that text. When the person with the card tried with the XFree 4.3.0 "s3" driver, the card didn't work. With the XFree 4.3.0 "s3virge" driver, it did. The summary on that page reads: "All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.3.0 except for the 911, 924, 801, 805, 928, 864, and 868, and versions of the 964 and 968 that do not use the RAMDAC chips listed above. The SuperSavage chipset is supported only in 4.3.0." So only the S3 911, 924, 801, 805, 928, 868 and 868 cards should use XFree 3.3.6 now. All others can use XFree 4.3.0 with either the s3, s3virge or savage driver. -- adamw
