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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.960917153510.130B-100000@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au>,
 David J N Begley <david@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
> On 15 Sep 1996, David Nugent wrote:
> 
>> The erstwhile 'E' beta was pretty damn stable in comparison. But - if
>> you're like me and your card isn't supported as at the last release - then
>> there's little choice, really, other than not to run X at all.
> 
> Gee, sounds familiar - only my poison is the ATI Mach64 (the GX variant)
> running at home;  won't work with 3.1.2, but is fine with the betas (F at
> the moment, need to upgrade .. again).

They're inventing video cards faster than the software can keep up. :)

>> If you call that a choice. :)
> 
> 'course not!  Which reminds me - I'm running XFree86 3.1.2 (no beta) on
> this Linux 2.0.10 box at the moment, using an S3 Trio 64V+ card (at work);
> is it just the FreeBSD port of 3.1.2 that won't work on the Trio 64?

Nope. It wasn't supported with Linux either - the chipset was recognised
as being S3, but the server halts with a message that it doesn't understand
the ID (then gives it). I was running 3.1.2E under Linux until only
recently.

Incidently, the SVGA version doesn't work on the S3Trio64 chipset either;
at least, no matter how I configured it, nothing seemed to help. Perhaps
some X-genius could do it if they had plenty of time.

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