Re: S3 928 X server available

Mikael Nykvist (viper@ludd.luth.se)
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:15:30 +0200 (MET DST)


Chip!

According to Steven A. DuChene:
> Does the Xserver for the S3 cards that David posted about work for a PCI S3
> cards or is there some problem with a BIOS on those cards (thus necessitating
> the X86 emulator discussed here earlier)? I.E. is it limited to the ISA S3
> cards?

The server works perfect on my Diamond Stealth Trio64 PCI (No pixmaps problems
like David mentioned), the mouse cursor looks like normal. Even the
16 and 32bit color works perfect =).

Even the doublescaned modes ("doom-modes" ;) works ok.

No problems att all since I exchanged my 70ns DRAMs on the card to 60ns. And
with Davids 'hack' (which allows user nonaligned memaccess), all programs
has work perfect. (Ok, xterm -sb segfaults, but I can live with that..I can
enable the scrollbars in the middle menu)

Perfomance is very good.

/Mikael

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