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- From: greg@katie (Greg Wells)
- Subject: Re: XS3 gives 'Unknown S3 chipset: 82'
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.190350.20594@msi.com>
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:03:50 GMT
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- Stephen Wong S M (a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk) wrote:
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- : I've also grabbed Xfree86-1.1 from ftp.robot.uk.ac, but it never
- : reports the clock setting of my VGA card, I use the following
- : command line:-
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- : startx -- ./Xfree86-1.1 >& out ; sync ; sleep 1 ; sync
- :
- : But Xfree86-1.1 reports that no supported chipset is found and die!
- :
- The S3 clock speeds are programmable. I believe Xfree86 requires clock
- speeds that are set on the chip by the manufacturer, hence only et4000, et3000,
- etc... chips are supported. XS3 is the only X server I found that can work at
- all with my Orchid 1280.
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- Greg_Wells@west.msi.com
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