On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:17:22AM -0600, Hank Barta wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 19:16, David wrote: > > I'm having no luck getting my s3 driver for version 4.2.1 working on > > my system. > > > > Linux distro is Debian testing. > > I have that card on a system on which I've recently installed Fedora > Core 1. It uses 4.3.0 and it generally works well. I am unable to get a > flicker free display at 1600x1200 because I cannot convince the server > that the card has a 220 MHz dot clock. It probes 170 MHz and seems to > ignore the "dacspeed 220" in the config file. It did work with an older > server (which was Debian also.) > > I don't know if my XF86Config would help you, but if you want to give it > a try, a copy can be found at I looked at it and can't see much different from what I have. I took a hint or two, however. I never did get 4.2.1 to work but I finally got 4.3.0 to compile and somehow it finally worked. I got 4.2.1 to come up if I reduced the ColorDepth from 24 to 16. However, if I CTRL-ALT-F? to a console, when I came back, I'd see a triple image - tripled horizontally, like it wasn't coming back at the right scan rates. When I first tried 4.3.0, it wasn't reading keystrokes right. Any keypress would be like CTRL-ALT-"+". However, I installed my compiled version under /usr/local/, but it seems that a few files in /etc/X11R6 were affected - dunno if they were critical or not. I reinstalled my xlibs, xserver-xfree and another package or two in hopes of perhaps correcting any errors this may have caused. I had a couple of symlinks I changed - /etc/X11/X now ->/usr/local/X11R6/bin/XFree86, and /usr/X11 now ->/usr/local/X11R6/bin I'm running under 4.3.0 now. It works pretty well. I'm not using the Modelines I did under 3.3.6. My monitor is a Sony Multiscan 15sf2. The manual gives 35.5/37/48 HSync, 56/60/72 VSync for the 800x600 modes. For this monitor, however, I got this from some web page, I had specified H/Vsyncs of 31-65 and 50-120 respectively. These seemed to work alright. 3.3.6 was using a 64 HSync Modeline "800x600" 69.65 800 864 928 1088 600 604 610 640 -HSync -VSync With the H 31-65, V 50-100 spec with 4.3.0, without the Modeline spec, it chose something quite near that modeline. With or without the modeline spec, I had a nice screen, but a large light-colored window on a dark background produced flickering lines at the right of the screen, overscanning I guess. Applying any change with xvidtune caused the screen to blacken. I set the H and V sync spec to 31-49 h and 57-73 v with no Modeline and now I get as clear a screen as I had with 3.3.6, but a white window shows the faintest bit of flicker that I didn't have before. I guess I'll live with it - maybe play with the specs a bit and see if I can tweak them. It would be nice if xvidtune worked, but it doesn't. Hank, I appreciate your help and am happy that I can, at last, run Xfree86 v4. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
