From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) i have a virge/dx adapter (diamond stealth 3d 2000 pro) with 4MB ram, and a nokia 446Xpro monitor that i am trying to run at 16bpp 1280x1024 but with both the fisher and wolverine release there is alot of vertical striping even with a static display. (i tried the options to turn accel off, and others listed at www.xfree86.org/4.0/s3virge.4.html to no avail) so i run 24bpp at 1024x768 and, although the static screen is fine, as soon as the screen needs updating it flashes horizontal corrupting lines until the update is finished. would be very happy to have this go away! thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use s3 virge/dx graphics card w/ 4MB ram 2. startX with 16bpp 1280x1024 3. look at screen (after login if using gdm) Actual Results: vertical striping video corruption Expected Results: nice crisp display without corruption while static or refreshing these settings are fine under 7.0 (unsure which XFree version i am running (4.0.x or 3.x) it is whatever ships with rh7.0 and runs by default as i haven't forced anything with user settings except to get the ctl-caps to swap and a imps2 scroll wheel working)
Use XFree86 3.3.6 instead, try: Xconfigurator --preferxf3 The Virge driver in 4.x is b0rken currently, and the XFree86 team hasn't found a fix yet to my knowledge.
Can you try using the current rawhide release and see how this driver has matured? It may solve the problem for you now in release 4.1.0. Or are you still having this problem?
sorry i don't when exactly the problem went away... but it has. i think it was an update XFree release via up2date. anyway you'd probably like to close this so please do. (i'll let you know how the roswell release is going, next!) thanks das
it's back - video corruption as described in this bug for the redhat 7.3 release using XFree86 4.2.0 and s3virge server...
Please try using: Xconfigurator --preferxf3 Does that work?
yes as you mentioned before i tried 'Xconfigurator --preferxf3' with no better results. i have also tried 'NoAccel' with no improvement. is there a X mail list you'd like to refer me to for suggestions/bug reporting? thanks
after trying 'Xconfigurator --expert --preferxf3 --server XF86_S3V' and getting similar results i played with the commented out 'Option' lines in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. uncommenting these lines gave a very stable display if it starts clean: Option "xaa_benchmark" Option "fifo_moderate" Option "pci_burst_on" Option "pci_retry" for both /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V but, of course, there remains one problem ... when X starts up it is some times horribly corrupted with vertical lines and hazing. C-A-bksp enough (gdm) and eventually i get a stable, uncorrupted display. amen.
I have a similar problem I have video card S3 Virge/DX 375 a NEC SyncMaster E500 Monitor. I can finish the installation for RH 7.3 but when the graphical login is start the monitor turn black and the computer hang up completely, I cannot switch to an other console or kill x with keyboard combination, the only way is to switch off or reset. I have turn off the graphical login and tried to start X with "xstart" but i get the same result. I have tried to reconfigure X with Xconfigurator try to indicate a different monitor with lower spec or different Virge driver. I have tried the Xconfigurator with --preferxf3 but I get no god result, I cannot even fish to run Xconfiguartor because when it tries to test the new configuration it hangs The only time I can see the graphics is during the installation it even postivelly test the X but when it reboot it just hangs.
alright i think my reopening of this bug was prompted by an LCD/Monitor problem and not a s3virge problem. if i reduce the vrefresh to a 55-60Hz range (instead of the manual's 55-75Hz spec - discovered during Xconfig plug-and-play detection? RADIUS H 30-80 V 56-75). if i force this down i always get a clean display at startup. so i think this is a KDS RAD-7 xfree timing problem, not an xfree s3virge problem. (just to be sure i did Xconfigurator --preferxf4 (to get the link /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86) and everything is still crystal. now my gripe is that the xfree timing and phase driving the LCD is *NEVER* as clear as it is under Windows 2000 -- I've read the e.s.r. xfree vid time howto and i've tweaked, ad nausim, with xvidtune to no avail. can i open a bug about this? thanks for your patience.
You can open a bug about it, but in all reality the 3.3.6 servers are not really supported other than for major security issues. Any bugs still present in XFree86 3.3.6 are more or less permanent. It is totally unmaintained upstream, and we provide it only so that users of hardware that does not work with 4.x at all, have _something_ to use for the time being. So realistically, I'd be lying if I said reporting the problem in another bug report would result in it being fixed. S3 hardware is quite old, and is not well maintained nowadays upstream. In order to fix bugs in the drivers, it requires both having the actual specific video card that the problem is occuring on, as well as having the technical reference manuals for the hardware. I have absolutely no S3 hardware or technical documentation whatsoever. The absolute best place to report all S3 related bugs is directly to XFree86.org via the xpert mailing list, and the xfree86 bug report address. Since it is older hardware however, getting bugs fixed for it may prove difficult. Alternatively you may wish to try the "vesa" driver. Sorry, but there is not really anything that I can do about this issue.
sorry i guess i wasn't short and clear. s3virge in XFree86 4.2 is fine monitor detection and driving of KDS RAD-7 17" LCD seems flawed at 75Hz but fine at 60Hz -- this was the 'new bug' question. all clear. thanks.