Very Computer

One of my frend has just installed Slackware (2.2?) on his P5/99
machine that has an ET4000-W32p_revision_c PCI graphics card and Sony
Multiscan 15sf monitor. The installation was not a problem, however
configureing XF86 for the above hardwere tricked us. X starts up with
no problem.  The picture is stable and flicker free, however when the
mouse cursor is moved on the screen it lives a trail (X marks)
everywhere along its path. The same problem happens with both the
XF86_W32 and XF86_SVGA server.

If anybody has been able to configure XF86 for the above hardware or
knows how to do it I'd appreciate some help or a working XF86Config
file.

Yours faithfully.
Bela Pecsek.

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 Vladimir Myslik

http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xmyslik/

: I am also experiencing the same problems with an ET4000w32p_revd
: Hercules Dynamite Power PCI with 2 megs. I have tried a program
: called Fixw32.c that was posted on a Czech webserver with no
: improvement. Also have played with dmemtime.exe (a Hercules utility).
: I have tested both the XFree w32 3.11 and 3.12 server. Also sent some
: email to Hercules Tech Support about it (yesterday). If anyone has any
: more info I would appreciate hearing about it. BTW, the web site for
: fixw32.c is http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xmyslik (just follow the pictures)

Try the W32 server in XFree86-3.1.2A (ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/beta)

It should work just fine with your card

        Dirk

I tracked down the 3.1.2a beta W32 server and installed the RedHat 2.0

elf distribution .....

Then I found out that if I said that I had

Section "Device"                                                    
    Identifier  "MyVideoCard"                                        
    VendorName  "Hercules"                                          
    BoardName   "DynamitePower"                                      
    VideoRam    2048                                                
    ClockChip   "ics5341"      <-----   this is the programable chip

    Ramdac      "ics5341"     <-----  see README.W32

    #Clocks  25.18  28.32  32.54  35.99  40.09  44.99  31.67  37.58  
    #Clocks  50.37  56.65  65.10  71.99  80.19  90.02  63.01  75.20  
EndSection                                                          

the ICS chip and took out the clock lines I got a good, clear, stable
screen at both 8bit and 16Bp (is it really 16Bp?? ) at 1024x768,
800x600, 640x480

I imagine that this would have worked on the older a.out Slackware
distribution but it's not installed to try any more. I wonder if the
ics5341 is another name for the stg1702/1703 or if the Hercules board
info is wrong?

SuperProbe misidentifies the ramdac at an ATT40.... something if left
to its own devices.  

Quote:

> Try the W32 server in XFree86-3.1.2A (ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/beta)

> It should work just fine with your card

: I have been having similiar problems. This is what worked for me.
: I have a Hercules Dynamite Power PCI D902. Hercules board info
: says that I have a SGS-Thomson STG 1702/1703 (PowerPort)
: Ramdac. Well with XFree 3.11 and 3.12 on an older Slackware
: (1.2x) distribution I had "mouse trails" and corruted fonts when I
: set up according to a config generated by xf86config and superprobe.

The W32 server currently (3.1.2A) does not support the STG1703.

: I tracked down the 3.1.2a beta W32 server and installed the RedHat 2.0

: elf distribution .....

: Then I found out that if I said that I had

: Section "Device"                                                    
:     Identifier  "MyVideoCard"                                        
:     VendorName  "Hercules"                                          
:     BoardName   "DynamitePower"                                      
:     VideoRam    2048                                                
:     ClockChip   "ics5341"      <-----   this is the programable chip

:     Ramdac    "ics5341"     <-----  see README.W32

:     #Clocks  25.18  28.32  32.54  35.99  40.09  44.99  31.67  37.58  
:     #Clocks  50.37  56.65  65.10  71.99  80.19  90.02  63.01  75.20  
: EndSection                                                          

: the ICS chip and took out the clock lines I got a good, clear, stable
: screen at both 8bit and 16Bp (is it really 16Bp?? ) at 1024x768,
: 800x600, 640x480

: I imagine that this would have worked on the older a.out Slackware
: distribution but it's not installed to try any more. I wonder if the
: ics5341 is another name for the stg1702/1703 or if the Hercules board
: info is wrong?

That sounds strange. The STG1703 and ICS5341 are significantly different.
Could you actually look at the card which chip is on there?

        Dirk