On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Peter Garrett wrote:
>
> There are several S3 cards. I had a similar problem with the S3Trio
> dx/gx, I think it was ... apparently the drivers are quite specific for
> the model.
>
I'm thinking it's more likely that the s3 xserver has gotten somehow
corrupted or more buggy as XFree gets updated.  This is because I have
other cards that look just like this one that I've used in other machines.
Under XFree 3.3.6 (the Debian I use now has XFree 4.2.1) the s3 xserver
powered that card just fine.  This is what leads me to conclude that the
xserver has gotten buggy in subsequent versions.  I suppose the other
possibility is that these s3Trio64v+ cards could look almost identical,
could have identifying marks printed on them indicating they are
s3Trio64v+'s, but actually be quite different on the hardware level.  But
it's all pretty much guesswork for those of us who do not write drivers
and/or develop manufacturing standards.

James
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