From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 20:11:00 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA19314 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 20:11:00 -0700 Received: from ultrix (ultrix.ramapo.edu [192.107.108.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA19307 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 20:10:57 -0700 Received: by ultrix (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA10541; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:12:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:12:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Wreski To: Jan Isley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XF86Config question.. In-Reply-To: <199508250227.WAA03878@bagend.atl.ga.us> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Jan Isley wrote: > Dave Wreski wrote: > > > I have a Diamond Stealth Video 64 VRAM and an AcerView 76i, 17" monitor. > > X starts and runs pretty well, but the left side seems to 'fold' or 'roll' > > into the right side. So, if I move a window past the left side, it appears > > on the right side. I was hoping someone might have a similar xconfig > > that they could share. So far, I have: > > You must be using XFree86 version 3.1.2 for your card to work. The > answers to your questions will be found in the README.S3 and other > files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc I sure did read them. That is how I noticed that my card was not directly supported. Before purchasing the card not too long ago, I saw in the hardware-howto that it was supported. > > you will want to experiment with these options in your video device > section. > > Option "Diamond" > Option "dac_8_bit" > Option "nolinear" > Option "slow_vram" > Yea, sure am using 3.1.2. Is there any chance of having the card supported in the next version? Great results with that info. It actually fixed the problem! I love it. Now, just a few other small questions... 1. I have a serial mouse (MS) and X doesn't like it when I use selection/gpm. I thought that was for ps/2 or busmice only... 2. Is slow_vram any indication that the board _is_ actually slow? It does seem a little sluggish (well, faster than my cirrus 5428) but I would expect it to be one of the faster ones that run under XFree. 3. I started out using my config from my old machine/card, and the color map must have changed, becuase my white background has turned purple. Which option/path do I need to change to get the correct color map? 4. How do get this card to use the maximum amount of colors that is possible? I would like to do like 64k or something like that. This is one part of configuring X that I don't know much about, due to the fact that the other cards I have had sucked. Follows is 'startx 2>&1 | less'. I was hoping you could look thru it to see if there are any blaring problems, or things that could be fixed. Thanks so much. X runs better than it ever has.. Dave Wreski dwreski@ultrix.ramapo.edu XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000) Operating System: Linux Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) mmio_928, s3_generic (using VT number 12) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/ttyS0, baudrate: 1200, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) S3: Graphics device ID: "Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM" (**) S3: Monitor ID: "AcerView 76i" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (**) S3: Option "nolinear" (**) S3: Option "slow_vram" (**) S3: Option "s3_slow_vram" (**) S3: Option "dac_8_bit" (**) S3: Option "diamond" (--) S3: card type: PCI (--) S3: chipset: 968 rev. 31 (**) S3: chipset driver: mmio_928 (**) S3: videoram: 2048k (--) S3: Detected a TI ViewPoint 3026 RAMDAC rev. 11 (--) S3: Ramdac type: ti3026 (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 (--) S3: Using hardware cursor from Ti3026 RAMDAC (--) S3: Using TI 3026 programmable clock (MCLK 63.000 MHz) (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 135.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000 (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.000 (**) S3: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.500 (--) S3: Operating RAMDAC in pixel multiplex mode (**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 (**) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) S3: Using a banksize of 64k, line width of 1024 (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,768) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x256 at (0,768) aligned 8 as font cache