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- From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
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- Subject: Re: Help w/Local bus S3
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.121532.17420@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 12:15:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.201302.18877@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jcachat@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John J Cachat) writes:
- > I am trying to get X up and running on my 486-33 Local bus with
- > an Orchid Fahrenheit VLB card (local bus S3), and a CTX multiscan
- > monitor. I am running Linux from the SLS series (believe kernel is
- > 99). I can get X to come up by using either the mono server or
- > the S3 server, but neither will recognize my video ram or clock
- > speeds other than 25 and 28. The servers insist that I only have
- > 16k video ram.
- >
- > When the display comes up using the S3 server, parts of the images are
- > duplicated (in part) several times on the right side of the screen.
- > Also, some of the fonts come out as garbage. This sounds like a
- > symptom of the misread video ram...
- >
- > I could live with the Mono server, except for the clock situation.
- > Very bad flicker. I have tried setting the clock speeds using the
- > 'Clocks' command in the Xconfig (also tried 'Videoram 1024' for that
- > matter), but it didn't help.
- >
-
- At a guess, I'd say you're using the 0.2b S3 server, because I've heard about
- this happenning to someone else about two days ago. 0.2b only seems to work
- really well with 86C911 based cards. If your card uses a different S3 card,
- get the latest server (0.3.1). This is normally available by anon ftp from
- ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk, but this is defunct at the moment. I have a uuencoded
- 0.3.1 file here, plus my xconfig (rock steady non-interlaced 1024x768). If
- people are interested. Please mail me. I will keep the file here until robots
- restart their anonymous ftp service.
-
- Tim.
-