[plug] K-word

[James Elliott]

When I bought Borland C++ Builder 3 a couple of years ago it would not run
on my computer.  After much correspondence with C++ (RichPlum) developers in
the UK and Borland we tracked the problem down to the way the S3 video card
handled data tranfers.

By detuning the card (in Windows) by turning the accelleration off, the
sftware then worked.  Another way of getting it to work was to reduce the
screen to 16 colours, but that made some of the components hard to see.

It has convinced me to try Matrox in my upgrade  (is S3 still around?)

Kind regards,

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
ABN 34 305 232 710
Tel:   08 9838 1043
Fax:  08 9838 1049
Cell:  0428 39 6052
E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
Australia Post:
PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Keith-Magee" <Russell.Magee at calytrix.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:57 PM
Subject: RE: [plug] K-word


>
> > > I have a S3 Virge DX and have only used that since i started linuc
this
> > > feb. could that explain why some programs just keep crashing and
> > > sometimes even system programs???
>
> Yes. It could.
>
> I had almost exactly the same problem a few years back win an S3 Virge
> (can't remember if it was a DX or GX, or something else). I wouldn't have
> put the instability down to a single application; it just caused X to
crash
> a lot, ranging from annoying temporary mouse lockups, to screenwide
palette
> changes, to complete screen lockups. Usually I could log in from another
box
> and kill -9 X, but sometimes even that didn't help.
>
> Admittedly, this was back in the bad old days of XFree 3.3.6, so I can't
> comment on the state of XFree4 drivers, but the only solution at the time
> was to throw away the S3 and get a Matrox G200.
>
> Russ %-)
>
> ********************************************
> Russell Keith-Magee
> Software Engineer
> Calytrix Technologies
> Unit 9, EIR Building, Technology Park
> PO Box 1173, BENTLEY 6982, Western Australia
>
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