From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 05:16:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17033 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 05:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17023 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 05:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@direct-source.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp108.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.108]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA17572; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 05:14:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 05:12:32 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: John cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 Trio 64V2/DX video card In-Reply-To: <3UKYkHANERw1Ew7y@i-zone.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@direct-source.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, John wrote: > Has anyone here run the S3 Trio 64V2/DX video card (1 MB) at better than > 640x480 resolution? I'm using the s3 server. Though the config script > says it can run at 1024x768 resolution at 8bbp, on invoking xinit it > always removes 1024x768 and 800x600 from the mode settings. Any ideas as > to why? Uh yeah, the video card can't handle the higher resolutions with that little amount of RAM. FYI, you can get new S3 DX Vriges w/4megs for about $40, which WILL be able to run at 1024x768x16bit Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message