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Article #247Re: S3 - Virge/DX or Trio3D for XWindows?
From: philicorda
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:12
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:12
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Chris Priest wrote: > Ok, so I'm building some computers from spare or recycled parts for my > own use. > > Which S3 card, Virge/DX or Trio3D, both 4MB PCI, is likely to be better > (or perhaps least worse:) for Linux/XWindows 3.6/4.x? A short opinion > would be appreciated. > > This card will be on an ASUS TX97LE with K6-2 417MHz (5.5x76MHz) 38MHz > PCI speed. > > Coming to think of it, would a 400MHz 2.2V K6-2 overclock and be stable > to 456MHz (6x76) without burning out? The 2.4v K6-III/400 previously > there wouldn't boot at 456. > > Thanks, > Chris. An S3virge DX does odd things for me under X 4.1.0 and 4.2.0. Ctrl+alt+Fkey switching to a terminal does corrupted display. Using 3.3.6 sorted it out. -- ';:'
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