From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Niklas_H=F6glund?= <niklas@canit.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:30:25 +0200

Re: S3 ViRGE FIFO

On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:42:05PM +0200, Martin Lexa wrote:
> I've got results only from Niklas ;-(( Niklas have you tried some
> other monitor(s)?

No, but I'll do that.

> > I suspect it's the ordering of the register writes to the card that
> > makes it hang, but I don't know.
>   But how can it be possible that it works in X?

Is the card in the same state when the registers are written? Are the
exact same values written?

> > PS. The XF86_SVGA server never flickers any at all, not even in 32 bit
> > modes.
>   Yes. But look at your settings when starting 640x480x32. You'll get
> mode at e.g. 100Hz vert. in kgicon, but in X you'll get probably 70Hz
> or lower and of course you can choose fifo options.

The chipset driver should not set a 100Hz vertical frequency if the
chipset can't handle it. It should fall back to something it can
handle. It's the slowest one that must set the speed.

-- 
						Niklas