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- From: davidn@cs.tamu.edu (David E Nichols)
- Subject: Xwindows and Diamond Stealth works at 800x600
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.222442.29039@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News)
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:24:42 GMT
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- Hello all.
- I went throught the same torture of running X with the mono server on Linux
- with my Diamond Stealth S3 card, thinking that there was no way to get color,
- even with the S3 alpha server, due to Diamond's wierd secretive nature.
- Well the good news is that I got the s3 server binary from ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk
- in /pub/linux/s3 (about 450K file) and installed it. After uncompressing all
- fonts and doing a mkfontdir in the font directories I was able to getX running
- in 640x480x256 with no problems (someone else already posted that they had done
- the same thing). Well I am typing this in now from an 800x600x256 xterm,
- it seems to be working great! I have not yet tried to mess with 1024x768 yet,
- but using the xview3 package, especially with olwm gives X a really cool 3d
- look! I LOVE LINUX! LINUS IS GREAT!
- anyway here are the relevent lines from my Xconfig:
-
- Clocks 25 36 50
-
- Videoram 1024 #<- don't know if this is needed, never tried it without
- Modes "640x480" "800x600"
-
- .
- .
- .
- "640x480" 25 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
- .
- "800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 623 625
- "800x600" 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666
-
- By the way, I almost get my S3 to work with the regular Xfree86 server using
- the et4000 chipset option and 640x480x256 mode. But the S3 server seems to
- be GREAT! I have a Mag 15" monitor; the 800x600 screen was initially set off
- an inch or so until I adjusted my monitor, so I suppose that the numbers could
- be adjusted to a more ideal setup. Please don't try these numbers if you are
- afraid they might blow up your monitor or electrocute you or something because
- I did not use any scientific method for arriving at the clock number (which is
- the only number I came up with: the rest are VESA settings)- I just used the
- old tried and true trial and error method. Also I booted OS/2 and used the
- card in every mode I could because I heard that this could set up the
- programmable dotclocks on the card or something so this could have been the
- trick (in other words, I really don't know exactly why it works but it does).
- Anyway good luck and KNOW YE: X for Linux now works with Stealth in SVGA!
- (and not with the commercial package OS/2 2.0!!!!!!!!!! this says something
- about Linux I believe).
-
- happy Linuxing
- David Nichols
- davidn@cs.tamu.edu
-
-