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- From: balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Balasubramanian)
- Subject: FAQ. X11. Getting and Setting Up the XS3 server.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.142611.10796@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Keywords: XS3 X11
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:26:11 GMT
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
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-
- [ Moderator's note: I sent this out once already, but I goofed it up
- somehow. Sorry if you see it twice. --liw ]
-
- If you have questions related to using XS3 on linux send email to
- jon@robots.ox.ac.uk. If your question is related to X11 or Xfree86
- in general consult the appropriate FAQ or man page.
- The following information is from Jon.
- krishna
-
-
- XS3 lives on ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk (pub/linux/S3), the server runs
- well on most non-Diamond S3 cards and support the 911, 924 and 801 S3
- chipsets. Some 924 users have reported lockup problems with the
- server, but generally the server is as robust as XFree86.
-
- For a comparison of speeds the various chipsets score about the
- following xstones.
-
- ET4000 6k
- s3911 34k
- s3924 45k
- s3801 66k
-
- XS3 is not (yet) based on XFree86, therefore you must not use the Xconfig
- supplied with the XFree86 release, nor can you use compressed fonts.
-
- To install XS3, first install the latest Xfree86 release, then uncompress
- the fonts:
-
- # cd /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts
- # uncompress */*.Z
- # mkfontdir *
-
- And place a XS3 Xconfig in /usr/X386/lib/X11:
- # cp Xconfig.f1280 /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig
-
- edit the mouse and modeDB sections of the Xconfig following the instructions
- with XFree86.
- # edit /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig #...
-
- then make /usr/X386/bin/X a symbolic link to the setuid root XS3 server:
-
- # chown root /usr/X386/bin/XS3
- # chmod u+s /usr/X386/bin/XS3
- # ln -fs /usr/X386/bin/XS3 /usr/X386/bin/X
-
- Hopefully now all that remains is:
- # startx
-
- If the server fails to run, check the error messages it gives when starting.
-
- Eventually XS3 will be combined into XFree86 and much of this will disapear,
- there is a Alpha XFree86 binary on ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk with S3 support, for
- now this can be used to find the dot clock frequencies of your card.
-