[plug] vid card

[Nicholas Yue]

Peter Caffin wrote:
> 
> Hellraiser4 [aka Ray Gerhard] wrote:
> >
> >hmm, what's the _cheapest_ vid card i could buy that will still load at
> >16bpp or 24bpp? (im sick of 8bpp). heh.. it seems i have an all around
> >"crap" computer :-)..
> 
> Well, I'm currently using an S3 Trio64+ which is capable of 16bpp at
> 1024x768.. Only problem is: yes, it displays at that, but, the icons
> disappear.

	Check to see if your virtual window (/etc/X11/XF86Config) is larger
than 1024x768,

	Example

# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32,
Mach64
# I128, and S3V)
Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "My Video Card"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1280 1024
    EndSubsection
EndSection

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