From: "Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." <kknerrsr@ptdprolog.net> Subject: XFree86 3.3.3 & S3 ViRGE -- Good News! Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 23:01:07 GMT Last week, I asked about some issues I was having with XFree86 and my Number Nine Reality 722 card (S3 ViRGE/VX 86C988). I've since upgraded from XFree86 3.3.2pl3 to 3.3.3 and there's good news and bad news . . . The good news: + Using the S3V server, I can now run at 24bpp and use Netscape with color buttons. Xanim also now works at 24bpp. (Yay!!!!) BTW--This was one of the fixes over 3.3.2 noted in the READMEs. + Using the SVGA server, I can now exit and restart X without a major system lockup. (Dare I hope that I will no longer have *any* X lockups?) Also, I can run at 24bpp w/ 1024x768. The bad news: + The SVGA server did not get the same fixes for 24bpp as the S3V server: Netscape still comes up w/ monocolor buttons. (I didn't bother trying xanim.) So although the SVGA server now works better with my card, I'm still using the (supposedly obsolete) S3V server. Although I don't get the nice FIFO and PCI options, I do get acceptable performance. In short, I just want to say THANK YOU to the XFree developers for providing this interim release (even though they'd rather be finalizing 4.0). You've made this camper quite a bit happier. Barthel -- -------------------------------------------------------------- kknerrsr@ptdprolog.net | http://geocities.com/Area51/Shire/4063 Organization: The Pennswald Group -- Linux powered!! Change is the essential process of all existence. - Spock