On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
> My laptop has a generic S3 Virge/MX that doesn't work with generic S3
> Virge/MX drivers... Mandrake 7.1 (not 7.0), and sax under SuSE both
> correctly identified it but still loaded generic svga drivers, so it
> works fine... Of course, Mandrake seemed to think it was capable of
> 1024x768, but that was easily fixed...
The S3 Virge (and many of the other S3 chipsets) are supported by TWO X
servers... the S3-specific accelerated server, and the SVGA server.
Either of these work, but last I'd looked into it, it seemed like the SVGA
server was working better, and was better supported. Changing which X
server you are running is fairly trivial... just install the package for
the X server you want to use and link it to wherever your distro puts the
X symlink (usually /usr/X11R6/bin/X IIRC).
Your font path problem is also easily rectified by simply making sure you
use the X Font server supplied with your distro, and changing the font
path in your XF86Config file to:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
So long as your distro provides a proper xfs config, this will work on all
distros (AFAIK).
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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