[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Zander) wrote:
>Please cc me, I'm not subscribe to -user
Done.
>Does anyone have a Voodoo3 card that they're running in 16bpp or 24bpp
>mode? I bought one yesterday and couldn't get X 3.3.6 to come up even
>in 8bpp. I get characters written all over the screen as though
>something's not setting the card mode correctly.
I have a Voodoo3 2000 running in 16bpp (and IIRC it runs in 24bpp quite
happily too) using XFree86-3.3.6. I don't have anything more exotic
than:
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device "Generic VGA"
Device "Voodoo3 (generic)"
Monitor "CTX 1569MS"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
# Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
Modes "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1280 1024
# Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection
[...]
... in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Although I'm running a 2.3 kernel with
CONFIG_FB and CONFIG_FB_3DFX set; could that make a difference to you?
>XFree86 4.0 does work in 8bpp but again produces character dumps for
>higer bpp. It also produces a nice /red or green border on the
>right-hand side of this image with resolutions > 1280x1024.
My monitor won't go that high very sanely, I don't think :(
>Any config snippets/tips/etc appreciated. BTW, win9x has never been
>near this card; is there some install step I missed?
I haven't booted into Windows for a long time (since well before I got
this card), so it probably isn't that.
I don't know if any of this helps, but let me know if there's anything
else in your setup you'd like to compare with mine!
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
