S3 problems?

[David Bussenschutt]

Sorry it's completely off topic, and nothing to do with VNC, but does
anyone have the XF86Config file I need to run X successfully on Redhat 5.1
Linux with my S3 VIRGE 4MB?

David.
Just mail me personally to save the list. thanks.


At 13:26 17/10/98 +0100, John Logsdon wrote:
>
>
>On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, matthew joseph valenta wrote:
>
>> 
>> > I have an S3 Virge card with 4Mb running under W95 viewer and Linux
server
>> > quite OK at the moment.  When I run the same machine under Linux itself
>> > (still S3 Virge and 4Mb and viewing Linux) the colours go rather
>> > psychedelic, flicking to OK within the VNC viewer when the mouse
activates
>> > the VNC viewer with the rest psychedelic and vice versa so in principle
>> > it's usable but it's not too much fun to use.
>> 
>> I also have an S3 Virge on a Linux machine.  I run Xvnc on it and view
>> from a Windows machine.  From the Windows machine, my control of Linux is
>> down right speedy (I can watch movies, and almost play Maelstrom.)  But,
>> when I run X with TWM and start up vncviewer on the Linux machine, I also
>> get funky colors and REALLY slow performance.  My solution is to just view
>> from Win95.  That's about all Win95 is useful for anyway; VNCviewer is the
>> only thing that doesn't crash the machine.
>> 
>> Matt
>> mvalenta "at" u.washington.edu
>> 
>> 
>
>
>So it isn't just me.  I was hoping it would just be a matter of tweaking a
>thing or two 'cos I don't want to change an otherwise good video card/
>
>Just for the record (in case Matt and I have both got it wrong) does
>anyone have VNC on Linux with S3 Virge/4Mb viewing anything (W95, Linux,
>Cambridge Uni coffee pot or whatever)  without the post-Armageddon
>solarisation? 
>
>Or is this a question for Wez?
>
>John
>
>
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