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Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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Fri, 3 Dec 1999 18:18:03 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
Anyone out there have any luck getting an AGP S3 Trio3D (86C366) to work
with XFree86 & RHL 6.1?  It's supposed to be supported by XFree86-3.3.5[1]
but I'm running into a brick wall...

I had beaucoup XFree86 problems with the #9 Imagine 128 II video card -- it
turns out that the ISA card is supported, but not the PCI card.  Guess which
one I have!  >:-P  You might find a similar incompatability with the Trio3D...

Fortunately, I found out that my employer released a fairly decent X server
for Win32...

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Arthur, I have POCKETS!!!



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  Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
 
I work for IBM in the Netfinity Server line, and my understanding is the S3 Trio 3d card doesn't work consistently with Xfree. Of course that's the chipset we use on a few of our systems. We 'support' Linux on the NF line and my main Linux guru (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
 
Anyone out there have any luck getting an AGP S3 Trio3D (86C366) to work with XFree86 & RHL 6.1? It's supposed to be supported by XFree86-3.3.5[1] but I'm running into a brick wall... --Todd [1] (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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