On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 19:18, Brian Schroeder wrote: > There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D, so > I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it working. > > I've got 2 boxes I am trying to configure with this chip in, and 2 very > different > monitors - and both produce the same problems. I would really like to get > this working because of the things that don't work with the XFree 3.3 driver > - > including the RENDER extenstion problem. This is Mandrake 9.1, although > I have seen some of the same problems in 9.0. > > In XFdrake, I have selected the XFree 4 S3virge driver, since the XFree86 > site says this is the appropriate one. I then select my monitor, > resolution, > etc. > Then, when I start X it gives a rather strange result: The left 2 thirds of > the > screen is perfect. The right third is a repeat of part of the left section. > The > right third of that third does the same thing - and so on for a few more > times. > > In other words, it isn't really usable. > > Using the left 2 thirds of the screen, however, I have demonstrated to my > satisfaction that the problems I experienced with XFree 3 do NOT appear > in XFree 4. So I would really like to get it working properly. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Brian.
I brought up some issues here with a particular S3 video card that refused to work well under Mandrake 9.1 and XFree86 4.3.0. It was rather lengthy and probably best searched through the archive than repeat it here. Your welcome to ask me off-line,though. As for your particular chip/video card, I can tell you that I have it working just fine under RedHat 9.0 with 4.x.x. (can't remember what the exact version is, but I believe its 4.3.0) It's a Jaton AGP-71 with 4 MB RAM using the S3 Trio 3D chip. With an older Dell 17" connected to it, 1024x768x16 bit seems to work at its best. I don't recall if I tried this card under any version of Mandrake. Some S3 video cards will work in RedHat that won't work at all or well enough in Mandrake. Most would tell you that your better off replacing the card. T
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