Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:18:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BT848 & ATI / S3 Cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911221435.4349E-100000@uhf.wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <19970911185826.36797@ct.picker.com>
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> > That's interesting. Doug White's got a Mach64 card too and said it worked > in 8,15,16,32 bpp, just not 24. This was however a Pro Turbo which has the > faster VRAM; the Xpression has DRAM as I recall. Might make a difference. Not being following the thread to closesly.. I am running an S3 Virge (Stealth 3D 2000, with 4MB of EDO). XFree 3.3.1, FreeBSD 3.0-current. Older 486 motherboard with broken PCI chipset. Prior to XFree 3.3.1 I was having IDE timeout problems (and lockups/disk crashes), but it's much better now. > Does it lock your machine? Lock the Xserver? Or just not display video? Are you getting any timeouts? Doug was getting ethernet card timeouts previously. > Is it running ximages mode or direct video when it locks (i.e. did it print > "backing off and using XImages" when you started it up). If it was doing > direct video, for a test add "-disableDirectV" to the command line to This optioned made it work for me prior to XFree 3.3.1 > disable direct video. If this works OK, this might indicate a problem with > PCI-PCI DMA on your system, possibly related to the chipset or that the > DRAM Xpression not being able to handle the bandwidth. Note that in 8bpp > mode, you're not using direct video. Bernie
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