Hi everyone, I wrote: [...] > I reinstalled debian 1.3.1, using the XF86_S3V server. I am using xdm > to login. Every so many times the machine hangs when terminating the > xsession. The screen gets a single color, it seems to have a preference > for green or purple. When this happens, it is impossible to login via > the network as well. Time to find the reset button :( [...]
noah answered: > Try the XF86_SVGA X server. I have a Stealth 3D 2000 (same as yours, but > with EDO RAM instead of VRAM, or whatever that is), and the SVGA server > works fine... I tried that one too. It also crashed on my video card, though in a different way %) brian answered: > Ok, this is for all fellow Diamond users. I have a Diamond > Permedia 2 8mb AGP card and because of this XFree86 3.3.2 > does not support my card. (No Diamond cards are currently > supported). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ This is very old news from a very old and very outdated HOWTO, and very much no longer true at all for the newer diamond cards (as [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out). > Therefore, you dont just need the s3v server but you > need a special accelerated server. I'm not talking about AccelX > either. I'm currently running the S.u.S.E. Elsa_GLoria server > and it works great. It adds support for many Diamond cards along > with others. [...] It is true that SUSE makes some excellent xservers. You may need to go to their site for the newer cards with agp, other diamond cards are in fact supported by the s3 and s3v servers. All of the SUSE servers will be merged in the main XFree86 release, and quite a few of them are already. Thanks for all the replies. I think I found the remedy myself. From the xfree86 web site I downloaded the XF86_S3V server from xfree 3.3.2. I just copied the server over the one in the bo package, which contains the server from xfree 3.3. This seems to do the trick. Some reassurance that the problem was actually solved is found in the release notes of xfree 3.3.1: ... 4.10 S3V (ViRGE) server o Support has been added for the ViRGE/DX and ViRGE/GX. o Problems with the Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 are now fixed. ... Hope this can be of use to others. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
