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- From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
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- Subject: Re: How to work X and S3 cards?
- Keywords: S3 X How Help Setup
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182622.24392@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:26:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.173242.23046@infodev.cam.ac.uk> I wrote:
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- >1) Get XS3 server from ft.robots.ox.ac.uk in directory /pub/linux/S3
- > Get version 0.2b for 911 cards, 0.3.1 for anything else.
- >
- >2) Get the example Xconfig file in the same directory.
- >
- >3) Uncompress the XS3 server in /usr/X386/bin
- >
- >4) Replace /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig with the S3 version and adjust the mouse
- > line for your mouse.
- >
- >5) Edit the file /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc so that it runs the S3 server
- > and not X or X386
-
- Aaaargh! Sorry... I meant /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
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- >
- >6) Type startx and go for it!
- >
- >NB: You may find your card cannot cope with the 80Hz 1024x768 line in
- >Xconfig. Mine does not, for example. Comment it out and try the 65Hz line
- >instead, which works fine on my machine, with no discernible flicker.
-
- Apologies!
-
- Tim.
-