Subject: RE: S3V X server (was: Re: Laptop/notebook recommendations?)
To: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
From: Mats O Jansson <maja@cntw.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/21/2000 04:21:45
If you are mentioned in the Cc: (or To:) you will get two copies. One
directly and on from the list....

I dont want a price...

-moj

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
> I hate to be portraying my character on these lists, but here goes: Why am I
> receiving a copy directly, in addition to the ones from the list? After all
> I only pointed out the merely obvious, not the obviously important. After
> all, both of the systems who live here, use the VGA specs, and were two
> chipsets, one wears the ATI 128 Rage Pro, (With Dell Mods!), and the other
> wears the Trident TGUI9xx0 series. I'll leave you both to guess which one
> runs NetBSD, or Linux, and which runs Windows, and Linux. First person to
> guess correctly wins the current booby prize.
> --
> Gregg C Levine mailto:hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
> "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Trust in the Force, Luke, and wait." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "The Force will be with you. Always. " Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "May the Force be with you." "And to you" Anonymous
> (This company dedicates this e-mail to the memory of Gen'l Obi-Wan Kenobi
> (Perhaps the greatest of all of the Jedi Knights))
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Rauch [mailto:rauch@eecs.ukans.edu]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 9:59 PM
> > To: Chris Pinnock
> > Cc: Gregg C Levine; port-i386@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: S3V X server (was: Re: Laptop/notebook recommendations?)
> >
> >
> > > > Actually, Chris, they say that ``Use of [S3V] is no longer
> > recommended.''
> >  [...]
> > > Ok. Accepted. Next time I'll quote rather than misquote... :)
> >
> > (^&
> >
> >
> > > XF86_S3V does not work at all on my laptop. It does not support the MX
> >  [...]
> > > > However, the SVGA support, on my S3 ViRGE/DX (/GX?) card is
> > inferior to
> >  [...]
> > > Ditto on my main machine which I think is a GX but I forget. The SVGA
> > > server produces wobbly output. The S3V server works much better for me
> >
> > Ah, perhaps I overreacted to your post, then.  I got the impression that
> > you felt that the S3V server should be ignored/deleted.  Sorry 'bout that.
> >
> > (Incidentally, XFree86 4.0's s3virge driver claims to suppor the ViRGE MX,
> > among others.)
> >
> >
> >   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu
> >
> 
>