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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Help needed: S3 / Alpha Server
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.145536.20610@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:55:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.181829.19864@tandem.com> <1992Nov8.143435.22815@odin.diku.dk>
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
- Lines: 24
- Originator: jon@lucrece.robots
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- In article <1992Nov8.143435.22815@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
- >tran@tran.Berkeley.EDU (Tran) writes:
- >
- >>I have been running SLS 0.98.pl1-40 on my Farenheit 1280 card using the
- >>MONO server and would now like to try the Alpha S3 server from
- >>ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk. I downloaded the source and binaries last night and
- >>installed it on my machine. When I ran "startx", I got just a blue background
- >>with no cursor or anything. The mouse did not respond. When I tried to
- >
- >The S3 server can't handle compressed fonts. So you have to uncompress them
- >all and update your fonts.dir files accordingly.
- >
-
- This is all in the README, the 0.1 server doesn't restore text mode the
- blue screen is was you get. My development server gives you a screen of
- green smilies when you return to text mode, sort last laught on me I guess.
-
- I'll release the latest server this week, it will feature 4 times faster
- pixmap transfers, ten times faster tiling and unless I can discover why
- an exit screen of green smilies.
-
- --
- Jon <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
- "I got in today just as the sun was crashing"
-