From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 9 22:56:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA12428 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 22:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA12419 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 22:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id HAA13005 ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:55:55 +0200 (METDST) Received: from iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (iaka) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:55:24 +0100 Received: by iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jf930126) at Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:55:22 +0100 Message-Id: <199607100655.AA15558@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: problems with 4 MB VRAM Diamond Stealth To: piesik@cs.put.poznan.pl (Piotr Piesik) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:55:21 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: "Alain FAUCONNET" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607100111.DAA00691@arrakis.cs.put.poznan.pl> from "Piotr Piesik" at Jul 10, 96 03:11:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Piotr Piesik wrote / a ecrit: > > > hi :) > > > I have a 4 MB VRAM Diamond Stealth (2 MB on board and 2 MB expansion > from Kingston, designed for Diamond Stealth VRAM). > [I'm not sure this belongs to freebsd-hardware or to the XFree86 lists/groups] I have the "video VRAM" (series 3400) variant. I might be the same, I'm kind of lost into Diamond's changing model names. It has 4Mb too (all of Diamond origin) > All possible 2MB or less video modes (for example 1024x768x64k) > are working fine. But all 4MB modes (for example 1024x768x16M > or 1280x1024x64k) are not. > It works fine for me in all modes including those using 4Mb. > There are vertical stripes on the screen, some fonts are garbaged, > some random color pixels appear on white surfaces... > > I'm using 2.1.0 Release, with its default XFree86. That may be an issue, you really should get the 3.1.2E server (latest beta available last time I checked) from any XFree86 archive. Also, the S3 server has a "slow_vram" option you might want to try. Maybe your add-on memory has marginal timings which require driving it in a more conservative mode. > > This hardware works correctly under Windoze. > > Does anyone have a solution? > Or at least any experience with other 4 MB cards, especially > ATI Mach64? > My only experience is that I returned the only such card I had bought a few months ago and changed it for a Diamond Stealth, being unable to run XFree86 on it. The situation might have changed since then. Good luck, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]