[LI] S3 Trio Success at last.

["Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri." <spavri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yippy.....

Okay I now have perfectly well behaved (I hope) X server with my S3 Trio
86C362.

Here's what I did:

Used XF86Setup.
Chose S3 Trio card.
Read the readme file and added the otions of fifo_conservative,
pci_burst_on, pci_retry.
Chose 4 mb vram.
Chose my monitor (Samsung 428PT in my case).

X was crawling..... then this mail from KD. I added the options manually to
XF86Config (I aslo commented out the options I had earlier chosen) and lo
and behold I have a working Xserver that gives me 1024x768 and 800x600 at 24
bits.

surprisingly, the readme file mentions an option for hw_cursor; I hadn't got
to that but it seems to have worked with option "swcursor".

Thanx everyone who helped,

Sharukh.

p.s.: If anyone wants the config file I can send it to him/her or better
still if someone can post it on  website I'll send him a copy and anyone who
wants it can download it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dakshinamurthy Karra <kd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] Graphics Adapter S3 Trio3D(86C366)


>
> OK, here is what I remember of Trio3D configuration on IBM machines.
> Zamir (from Lateral software) got a copy of the XF86Config file - I will
> ask him to post it to the list.
>
> Use the following Option strings in the Device section (check the
> spellings in the XF86_SVGA man-page):
>
> Option "noaccel"
> Option "swcursor"
> Option "nobitblt"
> Option "nolinear" # (This one I am not sure of )
>
> I started a small writeup on getting a X server (atleast) to work. I am
> not sure when I can complete it and post it to the list ;-(
>
> -- KD
>


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