[haiku-development] Re: S3 Video Driver Problem

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Gerald Zajac wrote:
> Is there any way that you can change the color depth or resolution to see if the chip then draws okay? 

Well, the LCD remains black after boot process is finished, so I can not
open nor use the Screens preflet. There is no keyboard shortcut similar
to X's ctrl-alt-+/- either, is there? Prehaps lower screen resolution
needs to somehow be hard-coded to the Haiku image during compilation.
This could be done probably by preconfigured Screens config file or
modifying the driver. Any thoughts?

> I would like to know if it is only 1400x1050x32 that causes the problem.

Bit depth is something I have not considered as the cause for this
problem. I always thought it was some EDID/wrong modeline problem since some of the lower resolution 32-bit modes worked with the old driver (not all). So, I never tested the lower bit depths. 

> I also can modify the driver so
> that accelerated drawing is disabled for 1400x1050. Would you like to try such a driver on your computer? 

Sure! Just send the patch and installation instructions (I am not keen
with diff).

-Antti

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