At 11:04 PM 12/25/99 +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
>I'm trying to get a S3 Trio3D AGP Card to work on RH60. I see the
>Xfree 3.3.5 can get more that 16 colors on the Trio3D.
Where do you "see" that? I just checked the Cardlist at the XFree86 site
(http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html - is this the "card index" you are
referring to below?), and it lists the "S3 Trio3D" as still using
"XF86_VGA16" server. Might you need to get a non-standard X server (one that
is not part of the standard XFree86 package) to do this?
>I download
>SVGA.rpm and installed it.
If my guess above (non-standard X server) is correct, the stock RH SVGA.rpm
won't be what you need. Check wherever you saw the information you refer to
at the start of your message to see where you might find the appropriate
version.
>RPM gave me no error messages. I
>then ran xf86config and set everything up but the card index still
>says the S3 uses vga16. And when I run Gnome, it still usese
>VGA16.
What do you mean by "set everything up"? One of the options in xf86config is
to select your X server and make the needed symlink to /somethingorother/X .
Did you do that step, choosing the SVGA server?
>Should I have also downloaded XF86 S3V server and installed it?
I don't see and S3V server listed anywhere in the Cardlist, so I assume my
memory that it is deprecated, and not available as part of the current X
distribution, is correct.
>Or am I doing something stupid?
Always a possibility ... but I don't know what it might be, if you did the
xf86config run correctly.
>I'm using a 14inch Sampo screen which supports up to 1024*768
>Non-interlaced, High Frequency and when I try to setup the
>monitor, it gives me the above two seperately, which one should I
>use?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand this one. What "above two"? If one of the
stock choices in xf86config for hsync and vsync rates matches your monitor,
choose it; otherwise, choose the "enter your own settings" line and enter them.
>
>Also, I see when Gnome quits there are some errors messages,
>whats the command line to capture those errorr messages?
Assuming you use startx to run X, do it this way:
startx >/tmp/xerrors 2>&1
Use any filename you prefer, of course.
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