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Date:      Sat, 20 Jun 1998 15:53:22 +0500 ( AMT )
From:      ran@ran.am
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        davidg@autodebit.com, cr@jcmax.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: S3 video cards
Message-ID:  <199806201053.PAA14600@styx.aic.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806200916.LAA05190@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Jun 20, 98 11:16:14 am"

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> In reply to David Green-Seed who wrote:
> > I don't know if this is related, but I've noticed that my S3 Virge DX based
> > video card tends to have intermittant problems - it appears as if fonts get
> > corrupted.  I haven't been able to determine what causes it.
> > This occurs under Windows 95, NT and FreeBSD (far less often with FreeBSD)
> > and appears to be fixable by switching video modes.  The symptom exists with
> > both 64MB and 128MB.  (It's a 4MB card)
> > 
> > Any insights would be appreciated.
> 
> I think that might be driver problems, XFree86 at least have had problems
> with the ViRGE/DX cards, and I've seen a lot of bad win95 drivers too.
> The latest 3.3.2 XfreeBSD SV3 server seems pretty stable here, only
> a wee bit pixel errors now and then if I move things too fast around.
> 

Don't try to use S3V driver with xdm. In this case, sometimes when you
logout, system completely hang. With SVGA driver my ViRGE/DX work fine
about 2 month.

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