I have now run into another problem: full-screen graphics programs (in
particular, games) only display the top half of the screen. It may be caused
by something else, though. I haven't spent any time debugging it yet.
Brian.
From: Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a very old bug with XFree86 and S3 Trio3d cards. It was reported
on the XFree86 mailing lists over a year ago. With the virtual framebuffer
activated the left half or so of the screen looks normal but the right half
is repeated vertical strips of some of the left part of the screen. I just
got through fixing this problem with my 9.1 install. If this is your problem
(It sounded like it from the original description of it), then the simplest
work around that I've found is not to use the virtual framebuffer at all.
When booting some lines with "vga=" in it the virtual framebuffer is
activated. From then on your display will be unusable with the XFree86
driver until you reboot without the framebuffer. I just now (less than an
hour ago) reinstalled lilo with the framebuffer and repeated this bug. I
have now set the linux-nonfb mode as my default boot and it eliminates this
bug.
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