Re: tlug: STB Velocity 3D and XFree 3.3.2

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> Some more experiments resulted in the following: The card
> works *exactly once* after booting.  When I leave X and
> start it again, the machine freezes.  Actually, all video
> modes (including the second above) seem to work (I tried
> about five), but all of them work only when the card is
> `freshly' booted.  I guess that it is the probing of the
> clock that freezes the machine when it is done after I have
> started X already once.  In particular, if, after starting
> X, I run `turboxcfg' to set up video modes, the machine
> already freezes after the dialog where I have to select the
> color depth -- `turboxcfg' seems to probe for the possible
> video modes, which I guess requires probing the clock.

why would you run turboxcfg when X is already running?  You're supposed to
run turboxcfg BEFORE starting X...

> 
> Apart from this problem, everything seems to work fine, even 
> the acceleration (though I have a slight distortion on the top
> 1cm of the screen image, which I cannot remember to have
> seen before installing the new server). 
> 
> > When you run at 1280, which dot clock does it use?
> 
> I append the output of the SVGA server below (but for
> 1152x900 -- otherwise, I have to boot again, and somebody else
> is currently also logged in).  It says
> 
>   (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 135.000 MHz
> 
> I guess, the server probed for this value?  Can I just tell
> it the value, so that it doesn't probe?  (I didn't find any
> such option in the manual -- but maybe I just didn't
> recognize it.)
> 
> Any idea why the card behaves differently the second time I
> start X?

So, is it still only with 1152x900, or all resolutions?  What happens if
you run Win95/98 in 1152x900?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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