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Re: S3 Trio 64 (#9 fx 331) and console(svgalib) problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Dyer)
Wed Nov 6 17:26:41 1996
From: Wayne Dyer <dwdyer@eskimo.com>
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:17:43 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <199611062204.RAA25028@marvin.redhat.com> from "Donnie Barnes" at Nov 6, 96 05:04:03 pm
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Donnie Barnes wrote:
>
>
> > > 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.
[...]
> 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.
Don't know about others, but I have. The SVGAlib docs say that S3 support
isn't all there. The Trio64 and Trio64V+ cards aren't specifically
mentioned, but the fix of configuring it to use VGA rather than probing
the card works for most SVGAlib apps. There are a few things that will
still cause problems. The one I experience is that the card just stops
sending a video signal, as far as I can tell -- the monitor kicks into
power-saving mode. The only cure I've found is the three-finger-salute,
(which fortunately initiates a proper shutdown).
Abuse works OK, 90% of the SVGAlib demos work OK, but only in VGA mode.
Not a problem for me, though.
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