X11, accel server and SiS 5597/5598

[Michael Shalayeff]

re
i think you are running an older X11 (which has that bug),
newer works ok on this chipset (i have one).
cu

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Mark A. Hershberger:
>
> I've just installed 2.6 and I decided to play around with X a bit.
> What I've found is a bit depressing:
>
> If, in my /etc/XF86Config, I have the "Accel" driver listed before the
> "SVGA" one, it gets picked and my fonts don't render. By "don't
> render" I mean that most of the places where I'm supposed to see text
> I see big black blocks.
>
> I've looked around quit a bit and I thought I would ask here before I
> went to the XFree86 people to see if anyone else has seen this under
> OpenBSD.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mark.
>

--
paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)

[Mark A. Hershberger]

[Mark A. Hershberger]

>>>>> "MS" == Michael Shalayeff <mic...@lucifier.dial-up.user.akula.net> writes:

MS> re i think you are running an older X11 (which has that bug),
MS> newer works ok on this chipset (i have one). cu

Great! I take it you aren't running the X that comes with obsd? Are
you running the next rev from the xfree86.org website? If so, I guess
I could compile that.

tia,

Mark.

[Matthieu Herrb]

You wrote (in your message from 1)

>
> I've just installed 2.6 and I decided to play around with X a bit.
> What I've found is a bit depressing:
>
> If, in my /etc/XF86Config, I have the "Accel" driver listed before the
> "SVGA" one, it gets picked and my fonts don't render. By "don't
> render" I mean that most of the places where I'm supposed to see text
> I see big black blocks.

Uhm, are you sure of that ? The order of the sections in XF86Config
don't matter. The XF86_SVGA server only looks at the "SVGA" screen
section, and the "accelerated" servers (XF86_S3, XF86_Mach64,...) only
look at the "Accel" session.

Could you send us the two versions of your XF86Config file ?

Also, as other have mentionned, try with XFree86 3.3.6 (you can get a
binary distibution for OpenBSD 2.6 at:
<ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/OpenBSD-2.6/>).
OpenBSD 2.6 only has XFree86 3.3.5. There were several SiS chipset
fixes in 3.3.6.
--
Matthieu

[Mark A. Hershberger]

>>>>> "MS" == Michael Shalayeff <mic...@lucifier.dial-up.user.akula.net> writes:

MS> re i think you are running an older X11 (which has that bug),
MS> newer works ok on this chipset (i have one). cu

I got 3.3.4 binaries from the website today and installed them.
Things are working much better.

Thanks for the help.

Mark.