Re: New S3 videocard
Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 03:58:01 -0400
> On May 31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Stanislav V. Voronyi wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All!
> > > I've bought new videocard from S3 - S3 Trio3D2X. This card isn't known
for
> > > /proc/pci or lspci utility. This card have the following PCI ID:
> > > 5333:8a13 - please add to oldpci & lspci.
> > >
> > > And now my main problem with this card - when I tried to set better
screen
> > > resolution using SVGATextmode 1.8 I found strange thing. I treat this
card
> > > in /etc/TextConfig as S3Trio. When I tried to set mode
> > > "132x43x8_16" 65 1056 1096 1216 1336 688 688 694 714 font
8x16
> > > my monitor turn off. I check up with grabmode what mode I've set and
saw that
> > > I've got 130 MHz dot clock instead of 65. I tied several another modes
and
> > > every time I've got dot clock twice greater. If anyone know how to set
properly
> > > dot clock for this card please reply to me.
> >
> > Trio3D is more commonly known as the Virge.
>
> nope. right now, only VGA16 or FBDev servers can be used for S3 Trio3D.
> the upcoming next XFree86 release will have support for Trio3D though.
> see XFree86 FAQs...
>
The new version is comming out this month, so you'll just have to wait about
a couple of weeks. Keep checking www.free86.org for details.
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