[Evolution] Re: [Xpert]S3 Trio 3d

[Jørn Christensen <news mettle dk>]

Hi

Let me know when you have had a chance of looking on the driver...
I have no expertise in this area, but I think it might be a problem for
the driver to allocate enough memory; as I said before the screen
reduces in size when I sellect 24 bpp and is perfect in 8bpp x 1280 x
960!

Could you explain to me why there's no advantage of 32 bit? It might be
me, but on Win98 I thought I could tell the difference between a 24bit
gradient and a 32 bit gradient - or have I fooled myself???

Setting the vrefresh and hsync is done by Modelines... right?
Well I found some different modelines for 1024 x 768 and the only
difference was where on the screen the picture was placed... (oh well
and the refresh rate...) but I thought it had no effect on the driver
generating the picture...!?!?!? 

~Jørn Christensen


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 00:53, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Well, don't know any other reason, other than there is a problem with
> the driver.  I'll have to take a look and see.
>
> I do see you don't have the monitor settings in the config file, you
> might try setting vrefresh and hsync in the Monitor section.
>
> Also, there's no real advantage to 32 bit, and 24 bit is generally
> faster.  (I noticed you mentioned that before.)
>
> -- 
> Kevin
>
>
> Jørn Christensen wrote:
> > Yes... tried that (alogn with XVideo "0")... didn't work...
> >
> > Attached the log and the config file...
> >
> > ~Jørn
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:36, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > > Jørn Christensen wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I have a Trio 3d vidoe card (4mb) and really really want to get a higher
> > > > resolution than 1024x768. I've just upgraded to XFree86 4.2.1.
> > > >
> > > > The problem is that when I try to set a higher ersolution (16bpp) it
> > > > only draws a correct width at 1024. The rest (from 1025 to e.g. 1152) is
> > > > copied from the right side of the perfectly drawn screen.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried many settings - even rising the bpp to 24 (I really wanted
> > > > 32, but the s3virge driver doesn't allow this...) but this width to the
> > > > correctly drawn screen only reduces to 800 or 640 (not quite sure...).
> > > >
> > > > I would send you a screen shot to illustrate, but my X-window manger
> > > > sees the full desktop and the screen shot does not illustrate the
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > I attach 3 log files from X (-verbos):
> > > >  - 1024-768-16.log   The current working setup (read: 1024 * 768; 16bit)
> > > >  - 1024-768-24.log   Broken...
> > > >  - 1152-864-16.log   Broken...
> > > >
> > > > Please help -  Its very frustrating on a 17"...
> > >
> > >
> > > What happens if you add the "noxvideo" option to the driver section?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kevin
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                                Name: 1024-768-16-noxvideo.log
> >    1024-768-16-noxvideo.log    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> >                            Encoding: 7bit
> >
> >                                Name: 1024-768-16-noxvideo.cnf
> >    1024-768-16-noxvideo.cnf    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> >                            Encoding: 7bit