On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
> I have an S3 ViRGE card in my home box and it works fine.
> I don't run the accelerated driver just the XF86_SVGA.
XF85_SVGA is accelerated too. It's a unified driver that contains drivers for
most old svga cards.
> I was running the S3 accel driver but the screen wasn't as good, had some
> patterning thing happening, I probably had the wrong modeline or
> refresh rate for the screen, so I just went back to the
> SVGA and it works fine. RH6.2 but I don't think that matters.
I had a similar problem (but opposite) with my brothers machine. I thought
XF86_SVGA (in XF 3.3.x or whatever) was meant to be the "future" of svga X
servers, and the individual servers like XF86_S3 and XF86_S3V were being phased
out. And then XFree86 4 came out...
Anyway, the fonts were really weird. My brother described it over the phone as
"they look like barcodes" and when I finally saw it for myself I had to
agree. Everything is fine now with the XF86_S3V server.
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