Re: XFree for S3 86c765?

1997-02-20 Thread G. Dillon 
No laughing matter, this: I have one of these babies (SuperProbe says
Trio64V+), and it has horrible pixel dust problems in --bpp 32 with the
XFree86 3.2 S3; which to upgrade to, S3 or S3V and will it help?

George L. Dillon
Professor of English
University of Washington
smail:PO Box 354330
  Seattle, WA 98195
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dillon


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XFree for S3 86c765?

1997-02-19 Thread Jeff Gunter 
Hi all,


I have a friend who wants to get Linux and X going on his fairly shiny new PC.
 He has installed Slackware but run into trouble with his  video card. In
between keystrokes on my PhD thesis (some non-trivial fraction of which is
being written in latex on my little Debian notebook) I think I have him
convinced to switch to Debian, especially if it looks more probable that he
will be able to get X up and running.

He claims to have a video card that is driven by an S3 86c765.  I poked around
XFree and cannot find any mention of this chip.  So, what are the odds it looks
like some other S3?  or would that be an S3V?  Any suggestions?



Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions.







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Re: XFree for S3 86c765?

1997-02-19 Thread dpk 
I don't know much about the chipset numbers, but the chipset looks 
familiar...

You might want to check if his video card is the S3 ViRGe chip.  The 
latest lease of XFree86 (ver 3.2) contains the driver for this card.  
Make sure you get the X_S3V server for installation.

Hope this is of some help.
Dennis

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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 
 I have a friend who wants to get Linux and X going on his fairly shiny new PC.
  He has installed Slackware but run into trouble with his  video card. In
 between keystrokes on my PhD thesis (some non-trivial fraction of which is
 being written in latex on my little Debian notebook) I think I have him
 convinced to switch to Debian, especially if it looks more probable that he
 will be able to get X up and running.
 
 He claims to have a video card that is driven by an S3 86c765.  I poked around
 XFree and cannot find any mention of this chip.  So, what are the odds it 
 looks
 like some other S3?  or would that be an S3V?  Any suggestions?
 
 
 
 Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Jeff Gunter
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 phone: 812 855 2317 or (812) 323-1031
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