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> This library will contain packages like the S3 X-server It took me a moment to realize he meant a version of X for S3 cards. In the meantime, my brain was t

• jeffbee 3y ago
  Lost to history is the fact that XFree86 version 3 provided a different binary for some families of graphics card. If you owned an S3 911 (a very common "Windows accelerator" at that time) you needed XF86_S3 but if you owned one of S3's execrable ViRGE 3D cards you needed XF86_S3V. Having a single server that contained or could load every driver did not come until version 4.
  • h2odragon 3y ago
    > S3's execrable ViRGE 3D cards twitch clocks so bad the screen would swim at 1024x768.
  • sharts 3y ago
    Dang, I haven't heard S3 ViRGE in so long. That thing was terrible. But that's all I could have at the time and seemed to work well enough. As for those old "Win modems" back in the day...that's a different story.