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Re: S3 Trio 64 (#9 fx 331) and console(svgalib) problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Nov 6 17:09:31 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:22:30 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 17:04:03 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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> > i've noticed that whenever i run console games nowadays when i exit my
> > screen becomes fragged and the text becomes flashy and unseeable, this
> > happens whenever i run any console svga based game, is the version that
> > comes with 3.0.3 buggy?
>
> I have the same chipset on a Diamond card, and had the same problem with
> the SVGAlib on 3.0.3.
>
> Unfortunately, the SVGAlib with 4.0 is worse; upon using any SVGAlib
> application, the program trashes the video registers on entry (!), not exit.
>
> It is a great shame the the Trio64 chipset is so common. I would look
> into this problem if I wasn't also working on so many other projects ;-)
Have you guys actually *configured* SVGAlib? I haven't looked at it lately,
but last I recall you need to hack the config file depending on which card
you have.
--Donnie
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