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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1828 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:00:04 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!lynx.unm.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: About XS3: was Re: where the black spots on my X windows come from? Message-ID: <1993Feb21.192335.5539@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Feb21.145832.27921@news.arc.nasa.gov> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 19:23:35 GMT Lines: 82 In article <1993Feb21.145832.27921@news.arc.nasa.gov> chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS) writes: >Does anyone has the problem with X ? > >There are black spots on my twm pop-up menu and on some of applications >such as gs (ghostscript) and xfig ( it is worst in xfig, it also has >lines too.) It is regardless the background / foreground color >of windows, they are always black. It is also regardless which video >mode is on "640x480" or "1024x768". When the pop-up window is gone, >the stain will be left on the other windows underneath it, but not the >portion was on the root window (namely the root window background is >always clean). I can clean the stain left on the >other window by refreshing windows. But I cannot clean the stains on >gs or xfig. > >When X is gone (by press <crtl><alt><backspace>, the console screen >has some stain (spots, short lines and funny characters) left, even >I went to vi screen they are still there. > >Is it come from the video card? No, I don't think so. Because >MS windows is o.k. and also xterm and other games wEJindows are o.k. >>From Xserver? > >Any glue? any way of fix? > > My 486 configuration is : > NICE-EISA 486DX2-66MHZ with 256 cache, AMI BIOS > 16MB RAM > Adatec 1542B SCSI Host Adapter > Teac 1.2 MB 5.25" Floppy, Teac 1.4 MB 3.5" Diskette > Toshiba 1.2 GB SCSI Hard disk > Wangtek 5150ES 250 Mag Tape drive > Diamond Stealth VRAM 1MB on board > Viewsonic 7 17" FS Multi-Freq Color Monitor > > It is running SLS Linux version 0.99.p14-62 and X386.S3-0.3.1 xserver. >I use "s3 5 9 " to set the third dot clock. Then I just use "startx" to >bring X up. And part of my Xconfig is as follow: > >vga256 > Virtual 1024 768 > Clocks 25 28 75 > ViewPort 0 0 > Modes "640x480" "1024x768" >ModeDB ># name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags >"640x480" 25 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525 >"1024x768" 75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 > >Any help will be appreciated. ***** Please mail your request to: ********** s3-alpha@robots.oxford.ac.uk Or for that matter any questions about S3 based graphic cards. Also, there has been a couple of rev levels for the linux XS3 server. We don't support Diamond products. I encourage you to take it back and get something like an Actix GraphicEngine32 or an Orchid Farenheit 1280 TA which many of us have and use to work on the server. XS3 and XBSD8514 has been ported to XFree86 (not by me) so expect a more robust S3 based server in the near future. I don't have XFree86 and probably won't get it but the rest of the community should start using the S3 server merged with XFree86 because it will support more S3 based cards. The reason why I am not switching over to XFree86 is because XS3 is a simple server to experiment with S3 chipsets. There are plans to support 16bit or 24bit in XS3 which will be difficult to support in XFree86. ******* I DO NOT know when the XFree86 server will be released. ********* Your 386bsd X server hacker, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming