Diamond Viper II X problems (S3 2000)

Craig Richardson

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Oct 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/23/00

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Hi Everyone,

I have persisted with this for so long I dont want to give up.

I have been trying to setup X for use on my system but when gnome (or KDE)
loads and I make a window, the screen loses it and bits of my window end up
all over the screen.

I am trying to setup the following in RH 7.0 (new inst from box set)
AMD Athlon 650
Diamond Viper II Video card (S3 Savage 2000 chipset)
Acer77c 17" monitor.

On the Xfree86 site I found info that says to use the X_SVGA server with the
S3 Savage 2000 driver. I am doing this but it isnt working properly.

Are there any other Diamond Viper II owners that have tried this also. Is
anyone else wishing they got the older Viper V770 TNT2.

thanks,
Craig

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Oct 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/23/00

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> thanks,
> Craig

I would suggest trying the appropriate server on:

http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html

Adam

b77819

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Feb 6, 2001, 11:18:23 PM2/6/01

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Actually, i have the same problem, with a trident 3D Blade!? i thought it
was my hardware too. has X ever run correctly then reverted to the garbled
state? did Xconfigurator work? but no cigar in X itself?

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Tomasz G Drozda

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Feb 8, 2001, 10:01:24 AM2/8/01

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Athlon 850 w/ Dimaond Viper II (Savage2000), MAG DJ530 Monitor (on RH list, so
i hope this is not a problem)
EXACT SAME PROBLEM.
RH7.0 installs fine in X; i get a nice X log-in screen; As soon as Gnome or KDE
loads the screen gets "scribbled"
Still looking for a solution. Any help, suggestions would be appreciated
thanks, tom

Craig Richardson

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Feb 9, 2001, 10:25:13 AM2/9/01

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I have just fixed my problem. I have to thank Dean Samuals of RH Asia
Pacific as he helped me tremendously.

I installd redhat 7.0 and did not configure X in the install.

I then installed the following rpm's (in this order) some use the -Fvh arg
some the -Uvh
Mesa3.3-5
Glide3-20001220-2
Glide3-devel-20001220-2
freetype-2.0.1-4
freetype-devel-2.0.1-4
freetype-utils-2.0.1-4
XFree86-4.0.2-6
XFree86-libs-4.0.2-6
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.2-6
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.2-6
XFree86-devel-4.0.2-6
XFree86-xfs-4.0.2-6

then type command.
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X

then
XFree86 -configure as root. then copy the /root/XFree86Config.new file to
/etc/X11/X/XFree86Config-4

Now I just need to figure out how to configure this file to get a higher
resolution and colour depth?????????

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Tim Roberts

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Feb 9, 2001, 11:18:18 PM2/9/01

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Tomasz G Drozda <dro...@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
>Athlon 850 w/ Dimaond Viper II (Savage2000), MAG DJ530 Monitor (on RH list, so
>i hope this is not a problem)
>EXACT SAME PROBLEM.
>RH7.0 installs fine in X; i get a nice X log-in screen; As soon as Gnome or KDE
>loads the screen gets "scribbled"
>Still looking for a solution. Any help, suggestions would be appreciated

If you're willing to upgrade to XFree86 4.0.2, the Savage driver on my
website (http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html) should do a much better
job.

RedHat 7.0 ships with XFree86 4.0.1, and the new Savage driver needs
features only present in 4.0.2.
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- Tim Roberts, ti...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

unknown

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Mar 8, 2001, 2:31:05 PM3/8/01

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The best thing to do is to download this patch from this website:
http://www.hastec.nl/drivers/Viper2/viper2.htm
Linux X-Windows Driver Versie 1.0.11
Works like a charm!!