S3 Virge support (was Re: Meeting?)

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Koree A. Smith said:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:
> > > Anyone know how to get X to work with a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 card w/ S3
> > > ViRGE chipset and 4 MBs VRAM?  It just flips out no matter what unless I use
> > 	XFree86 ver. 3.3.1 has support for most (if not all) incarnations
> > of the S3 Virge chipset.  rpms are available at any RedHat mirror in the
> > updates directory.  The one that I use is:
> 
> I downloaded all the new packages that apply to me.  I'm going to install them
> tonight.  I noticed that they actually have an S3V server, whereas the one
> that comes with 4.2 just includes an S3 server.  I'll let ya know how it all
> works out :D

FWIW, the Virge support has been there for the better part of a year
now...  I've been using the S3V server since like April of last year
(since I got my Diamond Stealth 3D 2000).  The SVGA server also has
support for the Virge (implemented by another group).  One or both
will probably work fine.

Steve
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