Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 26683
XFree86-4.0.2 fails with S3virge
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11 i586) XFree86-4.0.2 does not work properly with my Diamond Multimedia 3D 2000 video card. It brings up the display, which is kind of divided in 3 similar vertical pieces, where it should show only one. The flickering is also very intense. RedHat's previous XFree-4 (the guinness default) worked, although Xconfigurator recommended XFree86-3.3.6 Xconfigurator seems to create an XFree-4 config file by default, and I had to issue a --preferxf3 (or similar) to have a running X server. Configuring by other means (xf86config, xf86cfg, manual XF86Config editing) gives the same results. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Xconfigurator recognizes my Video Card PCI Entry S3 Inc.|86c325 [ViRGE] 2. Select my Monitor Sony CPD-15SF2 3. Issue my video memory 2MB 4. Select No Clockchip Setting 5. Select 1152x864x16bpp 6. X starts and displays these horizontally compressed and mixed stuff. The vertical axon behaves correctly.
*** Bug 28052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If it matters, my ViRGE (bug 28052) is exactly the same model. lspci output: 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Yes, the recommended way to fix this is to run XConfigurator --preferxf3 The S3 support in XFree86 4.0.2 is a bit shaky. Hopefully 4.0.3 will have fixed these bugs.
Xconfigurator has been fixed to default his card to XFree-Servers 3.3.6 now. This will be in the next rawhide release.
XFree86-4.0.2 as shipped in wolverine works again with S3virge. I note again that it was only fisher that did not work correctly with XFree86-4.0.2