Re: Video Card Compatibility Problems

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:57:18 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, John Coleman wrote:

> I am having ridiculous problems with Hardware compatibility on
> Linux. Recently I bought a Digital-Research card with the
> Trio-S3-64V2/DX chip.
>
> I had a previous S3-Trio Video card that worked fine,
> until the Monitor blew-up.
>
> Am I missing something ?

Yes. The S3 is not entirely compatible with the S3Virge.
You need to use another X server, as is documented on
www.xfree.org...

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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