At 08:44 AM 6/3/2002 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >Eric N. Valor wrote: > > I've tried stepping through the archives, but the lack of a search > > engine means that I have to manually parse 80+ megs of information > > (this takes a human quite a long time). > >Have you tried using something like google to search through the >archives ? I've found that works quite well. Yes. That's what led me to subscribe to the mailing lists. > > For more information, the card is using the S3 Virge/GX2 chip. > > > I have a Number Nine Reality 334 (4mb, AGP) which I'm trying to run with > > Debian (Woody). I've set the resolution to 1024x768 at 16bpp. Everything > > seems to work fine except when I try to pop open an Xterminal. At that > > point, XF86_SVGA goes to 98% CPU utilization (I'm on a dual-850 PIII) and > > the whole system locks up. After almost a minute it comes back, but doing > > anything like "ls /etc" causes the same behavior. > > > > Other windows, such as a web browser, are not affected in this way. > > > > When I set the color depth to 8bpp everything seems OK, but the color > > definition is pretty crappy. This card, when used in a Windoze box, > can do > > 1024x768 at 16 all day long. Am I really stuck at 256 colors? > > > > Nothing is thrown in the logs to indicate an error. > >Delays like that can happen when the disk or memory is full, I take it >that isn't the case here. Admittedly that doesn't sound likely if it >works in 8bit. Nope.. this is a brand new system with 60+ gigs of disk and a half-gig of RAM. >XF86_SVGA is from XFree86 version 3. >Have you tried using the s3virge driver in XFree86 version 4 ? This is my next step. I just wanted to ascertain whether the ground had been covered before. The odd behavior and the fact that the S3 Virge/GX2 is supposedly well-supported by XF86_SVGA made me curious. I'll report back when I've had a chance to install XF86_V4. -- Eric N. Valor ericv@cruzio.com PGP Key 2048/1024 227B04CB Key Fingerprint = 766C CA15 0FFF E54B 2FEE C7D7 0F87 3AFB 227B 04CB : This Space Intentionally Left Blank :
