From: Dr. Michael Weller (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de)
Date: Tue 22 Dec 1998 - 13:01:26 IST
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Bob McCracken wrote: > Hello, > > My ViRGE VX is fully supported by XFree86 3.3.3 and 3.3.2, but is still > unsupported in the recently released svgalib-1.3.1. (I deduced this from > the README and RELEASE files. -- I haven't compiled it yet.) > > Inasmuch as Harm Hanemaayer did the ViRGE work for XFree86, I don't > understand why that support has not been incorporated into svgalib. (At > the suggestion of Koen Gadeyne I tried last year to do it myself, but > I didn't, and don't, have enough video card expertise to understand all > the obscure XFree86 code.) Well, I don't understand this myself. I'm tad confused too, because Harm usually does more Cirrus than S3 stuff. I know, however, he has/had some RL problems and was away from the net & linux at all. This might explain this strange situation. Honestly, I don't have much time myself either as I'm now really busy with renovation of my flat/house and getting furniture and stuff. In addition I never had an S3 card (well, no really specific reason, it just never happened). Hence, I can't help here directly. > > I have to use "chipset VGA" in libvga.config, because using "S3" or letting > it autodetect gives me a gamma setting so dark I can only the perceive the > presence of an image with the room lights off. I therefore have no idea of > the quality of the image. >From what you describe, if the image itself is ok, 'just' very dark. I assume your S3 has an 8bit per R/G/B RAMDAC and either the S3 chipset or the svgalib driver does not know about and does not make the necessary modifications to transfer 6bit color values to 8bit. As a result, every color is too dark by a factor a little bit larger than 4. > > FYI, /proc/pci reports: > > PCI devices found: > [...] > Bus 0, device 9, function 0: > VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/VX (rev 2). > Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x78000000. > [...] Sorry that I can't help more, Michael. -- Michael Weller: eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de, eowmob@ms.exp-math.uni-essen.de, or even mat42b@spi.power.uni-essen.de. If you encounter an eowmob account on any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me.
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