On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Justin Georgeson wrote:
>I recently upgraded to a dual PII motherboard (Tyan S1696DLUA Thnder 2)
>with a single PII 333 and 64 MB of RAM. I have an A-Trend 4MB AGP S3-ViRGE
>GX/2 video card in it. Either the card, or the S3V server....sux. I think
>that when it started crashing frequently, was due to different versions of
>software (didn't notice the .1 on the rpm's). So I upgrade that, so now
>all my XFree86 rpm's are 3.3.3.1. Noticeable improvement. But I'm still
>seeing the server crash for no good reason (changed the font size in an
>xterm, ran top). After I upgraded all the X rpms I ran XF86Setup and said
>to start from scratch to configure everything over again, and this has,
>for the most part, fixed the problems. But until I did this, I was only
>able to run X in 8bpp and almost anything (save moving the mouse, most of
>the time) would make it crash. I guess to get to the point, does anyone
>know is the S3V server is worth anything. I seem to see better
>performance, faster and nicer looking, using the SVGA server.
I run the S3V server at home with my DX/2 card with no problem (but you have to
add a line to xf86config to overclock it). However, I'm told that it's better
to use the SVGA server. I've run into a problem on a friend's system which has
a GX/2. We can't get either server to work. It'll run fine for a while, then
it will just completely freeze up. Can't Ctrl-B/S, can't switch to another
virtual screen, can't ctrl-alt-del, sometimes the reset button won't even work,
we have to power cycle it at the surge protector! It seems to have something to
do with the mouse (just my intuition) which in this case is PS/2. What type of
mouse are you using? On the other hand, our problem could be that the machine
is question is a Slackard/Bell.
Simon Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Operating Systems Specialist
Department of Utilities
University of Texas
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