Trio64 is ok (was: S3 928 X server available)

Mikael Nykvist (viper@ludd.luth.se)
Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:30:57 +0200 (MET DST)

According to David Mosberger-Tang:
>
> As many of you may have noticed already, a preliminary S3 X server
> (with associated libraries and X client programs) is available at:
>
> ftp://ftp.digital.com:/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/X11
>
> This XFree86 port is courtesy of Jay Estabrook. *If* you have an
> S3-based graphics card, you may want to give it a shot. HOWEVER, it
> is only known to work with #9 Level 12 graphics cards with 3MB of RAM
> (these are 928 based cards). Having said this, Mikael Nyquist
> reported that the server also works reasonably well for his Trio-card
> (sorry, I'm not sure which type).

I'm using a Diamond Stealth Trio64, but I'm pretty sure that almost
any Trio64 based gfx-card should work ok(Probably Trio32 based also, but
that is a waste of money,pay a few bucks more and double the perf.). Make
sure you have 60ns rams on it though, my had 60ns soldered and 70ns in the
sockets,which was to slow.

> There are several known bugs (e.g., the screen seems rotated to the
> left by 4 pixels, xterm -sb doesn't work, but enabling the scrollbar
> via popup menu works fine). But at least with a #9 Level 12, things
> work amazingly well (and quite fast---even though not much has been
> optimized yet).

No screenwrapping problems on Trio64. xterm -sb segfaults here to.

Very good perfomance also, I will probably run the xbench testsuite
some day, and compare the result with the monthly survey.

A stranger problem is that I cannot execute 'xterm' as a normal user.
(xterm is suid root though).

Running as root gives: (but it works ok.)

'Failed to open input method'

(Both the mouse and keyboard works ok, here are the lines from XF86Config:

---
Section "Keyboard"


    Protocol    "Standard"
----
Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "PS/2"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"  #And mouse is a link to /dev/ps2aux

---


Runnig as a user gives:


memory violation at pc=120050f20 (0000000c)
Segmentation fault


And ofcourse it doesnt work... According to David MT, it is supposed to
work with xdm, so maybe I have something screwed up here? (I tried chmod'ing
every possible device in /dev, and the socket in /tmp .. No go..


/Mikael



-- 
Mikael Nykvist, viper@ludd.luth.se
Running Linux/Alpha at 233Mhz!!!. http://www.ludd.luth.se/~viper/