From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs) Subject: Re: Help needed: S3 / Alpha Server Date: 10 Nov 1992 14:55:36 GMT
In article <1992Nov8.143435.22815@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
>tran@tran.Berkeley.EDU (Tran) writes:
>
>>I have been running SLS 0.98.pl1-40 on my Farenheit 1280 card using the
>>MONO server and would now like to try the Alpha S3 server from
>>ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk. I downloaded the source and binaries last night and
>>installed it on my machine. When I ran "startx", I got just a blue background
>>with no cursor or anything. The mouse did not respond. When I tried to
>
>The S3 server can't handle compressed fonts. So you have to uncompress them
>all and update your fonts.dir files accordingly.
>
This is all in the README, the 0.1 server doesn't restore text mode the
blue screen is was you get. My development server gives you a screen of
green smilies when you return to text mode, sort last laught on me I guess.
I'll release the latest server this week, it will feature 4 times faster
pixmap transfers, ten times faster tiling and unless I can discover why
an exit screen of green smilies.