Actually, Chris, they say that ``Use of [S3V] is no longer recommended.''
That is subtly different than recommending against using S3V.  If they
really felt that it was an error to use the S3V server, they should have
used stronger language or relocated the binary or both.

However, the SVGA support, on my S3 ViRGE/DX (/GX?) card is inferior to
the S3V support.  I can't comment too much on the speed of the two, but
with the S3V server I can get 1280x1024 in 24-bit mode; with the SVGA
board, I have to kick it up into 32-bit mode to get 24-bit displays, and
on 4MB of RAM, that limits you to something like 1024x800.  (I was quite
annoyed at this since at the time I mostly used 24-bit displays and really
am attached to 1280x1024.)


I can't remember much else about it, the time or two that I used it.
Mostly, I just remember being disatisfied and dropping it in favor of the
S3V server.  (Interestingly, S3 ViRGE cards have dedicated support again
in XFree86 4.0.  Witness /usr/X11R6/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.o (if you
have XFree86 4.0 installed...).)


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu