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  From: Sam Silvester <silvest@capri.net.au>
  To  : Tim Jones <timjones@adel.tafe.sa.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 19:17:07 +1030

Re: Configuring X Windows for S3 Virge GX2 AGP

Regarding the S3 card...
    I have a S3 Virge MX card and I get a similar result, except that I have
several miniture screens displayed at once. The interesting thing is that if
I use a different monitor, I get a completely different result: This time
the screen is semi-legible, but is distorted. I have a Viewsonic (yes,
Viewsonic!) 15 monitor, and the other one was the laptop's inbuilt one.
    I am not sure but maybe the problem could be with the
horizontal/vertical refresh rates. Have you tried setting them both to very
conservative settings and maybe running in 640 x 480 mode? It could be that
your monitor cannot display whatever you have set.
Hope this helps.
Sam.

Tim Jones wrote:

> Has anybody been able to configure X Windows to run successfully on an
> S3 Virge GX2 AGP video card?
>
> I am using Red Hat 5.1 (Manhattan).  The card is a "no-name" (Genesis),
> have tried the generic S3 Virge GX2 entry from the card database (296 I
> think) and just about every conceivable combination of SDAC etc.
>
> The closest I have come is two images of the desktop side-by-side on the
> screen, which suggests a scan problem.  My monitor is a Viewsonic 17GA
> with 4mb.
>
> Red Hat's response to the problem is "your card is not supported"!!
>
> Any help will really be appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Tim Jones
>
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