[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Having just upgraded my system from Mandrake 7.2 running the original > XFree86 4.1.0 binaries to the XFree86 4.2.0 provided with Mandrake 8.2 (/ > partition was reformatted for this upgrade) I now have a visual problem > with the XFree86 display. The card in this machine (an IBM 300PL) is a S3 > Trio 3D which identifies itself to XFree86 4.2.0 as: > > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA BIOS detected > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0 > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 4096 kB > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE OEM: S3 Incorporated Trio3D. > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.1 > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: S3 Incorporated. > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Trio3D > (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Rev B > (--) S3VIRGE(0): Chipset: "trio 3d" > (II) S3VIRGE(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is > 0x0000 > (II) S3VIRGE(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is > 0x0000 > > The left hand side and middle of the screen are fine, but the right hand > side of the display is covered with multiple copies of a strip about 180 > pixels wide taken from the middle of the screen and duplicated roughly > three times (in 1280x1024 resolution) on the right hand side of the screen. > Every application appears to be acting normally on this setup, the X server > runs happily enough without errors in the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file. > This effect is not observed in 8bit colour but is seen in 15, 16 and 24bit > colour depths. Moving to higher resolutions like 1400x1050 results in a > similar effect with roughly five copies of that strip on the right hand > side of the screen. > > Disabling acceleration for the s3virge driver does not affect the display. > Similarly settings like "fifo_conservative" do not have any effect. I've > tried reverting to the older frame buffer code and that does not change the > display either. Fiddling with xvidtune does not have any effect. > > At the moment I'm reverting back to XFree86 3.3.6 but I would like to know > if this is a known problem. XFree86 logs, current configs are available on > request.
A full log would be helpful. I've seen a case where missing monitor config and failing DDC caused something like this. -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
