On Monday 13 October 2003 2:28 pm, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I'm thinking it might have to do with my funky vid card (ELSA GLoria-L). Sax2 won't run on this machine - it goes to a black screen that won't respond to any keystrokes except the reset button. I had to setup XFree 4.1 with the old sax, passing monitor and server parameters to it on the command line for it to run correctly (hsync, vsync, screen resolution and server). Sax2 doesn't seem to have the same switches. Is it bad to setup newer versions of X with sax instead of sax2?
BTW, I had a lot of trouble setting up the older version of XFree from the CD's, too.
Greg
HI Greg,
I think sax2 has a command line switch to force it to run in a low res mode, and I believe it is "-l" (minus ell). I've succeeded in using this with all sorts of strange hardware. This switch is not the default.
sax is designed for XFree86 3.x, while sax2 is designed for XFree86 4.x. SuSE seems to be geared to more easily handle XFree86 4.x.
See if you can get this graphics card to run in 640x480 8-bit color mode first, and if you succeed, then get brave and attempt higher resolutions afterwards.
Later,
Andy
Andy,
Lowres won't work. The problem is it sees the S3Virge chip on the vid card and wants to use the s3virge driver, when it should really be using the 3DLabs driver. In the old sax, it tries to run in lowres first, and it comes up very large and hanging way over the edge of my screen. What I've found to work is this - sax -h 30-70 -v 50-150 -a 1024x768 -s XF86_3DLabs
I've read the help screen for sax2 a bunch of times, and I don't understand how to give it the same information.
sax2 -m 0=vga sort of works. I get a 320x200 image that fills the bottom half of my screen and bleeds way off the right edge.
sax2 -m 0=glint quits and gives me error messages (no device found - the card has a glint 500tx accelerator)
sax2 -m 0=s3virge goes black and locks up, only reset button gets me out
Can't figure out the proper syntax for the --xmode option to set the screen resolution or hsync, and setting vsync doesn't seem to be an option. If you know this secret, I'll buy you a beer.
Greg
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