Mohan, I have an S3 Virge GX2 here. Does it lock up with certain
colour-depths? Try running X at 8-bit and see if it locks up. In my case,
if I try running it at 32-bit, all sorts of strange effects happen (like
invisible windows and floating widgets). AFAIK, 16-bit is the highest your
card can support. I would try running 4.0.3 at least. The fixes related
to the gx2 partially fix the problems with the MX. The fixes were
incorporated in 4.0.3. I'm now running 4.1.0 and have not had problems
since 4.0.3. Before, the forsaken SVGA server would cause me to lock up
within seconds of any line-stipling or fast-scrolling text.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Kevin Brosius wrote:
|Mohan Rajagopalan wrote:
|>
|>
|>
|> I tried compiling and installing X on my Toshiba Satellite 490CDT laptop
|> .. it compiles and installs. I have a S3 ViRGE /MX card with 2MB on the
|> laptop which is identified by xf86config.
|
|4.0.2 is rather old, would you be able to install 4.1.0?
|
|>
|> When I to start with any screen resolution > 320 X 200 the machine
|> hangs. After spending hours trying to trace the cause, I discovered the S3
|> device driver would hang trying to update the MTRRs for Write Combining.
|> Tha machine hangs even with all forms of acceleration disabled.
|> The only fix I could use is to change the driver to VESA.
|>
|> Has anyone else had similar problems ? Any fixes ??
|>
|> -mohan
|>
|
|We've had some trouble with MX. What makes you think MTRRs are hanging
|the machine? There are a couple updated drivers on my page at
|http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/pages/virge.html, although I
|suspect even the 4.0.3 version will not run with 4.0.2. If you give it
|a try let me know if it loads.
|
|
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