You probably want to look at the XF86_SVGA man page rather than
the XF86Config man page.
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:28:03PM -0600, David Smith wrote:
> Thanks. That worked. I never would've thought of that,
> since my XF86Config file didn't have that line anywhere.
> Is there somewhere that lists these sorts of options?
> I couldn't find anything in the man pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher
> M Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 10:20 PM
> To: David Smith
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> Subject: Re: weird X problem
>
>
> I had this problem once with Mandrake 7.0, X 3.3.5+,
> and my SiS 6326. There was a simple solution:
> modify your XF86Config file in the 'Section "Device"'
> for one or both of your cards (try the SiS first)
> the following line:
> # Option "noaccel"
> Uncomment this line and see what happens. (I read somewhere
> that [at least with my ver. of X] the acceleration
> for my Svga server was not quite polished for the SiS.
> When I had the same symptoms you describe as I was overclocking
> my dual celeron 366s to 550 each, and I modified the above line,
> the graphics did slow some, but the artifacts went away.)
>
> Good luck!
>
> Chris Johnson
>
> David Smith wrote:
> >
> > I have Slack 7.0 installed on a machine, but I can't
> > get fonts in X-windows to work right. Everything
> > looks fine, except words on menus and icons and in
> > titlebars are replaced by black rectangles. I have
> > no idea what could be wrong. I have two video cards:
> > an S3 Trio 3D and an SiS 6326. I tried configuring
> > X for each card, but I still get the same prob.
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion for me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
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