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  <H2><A NAME="1"></A>1. Supported hardware</H2>
<p>Since release 3.3.2 of XFree86, there are now two servers which support
the ViRGE family of chips. The XF86_S3V server 
is a dedicated server which supports the S3 ViRGE (86C325), the ViRGE/DX 
(86C375), ViRGE/GX (86C385) and the ViRGE/VX (86C988) chips. Use of that
server is no longer recommended. It is not actively being supported anymore.</p>
<p>The above ViRGE chipsets are supported in the 
XF86_SVGA server, which includes a new ViRGE driver making use 
of the XAA acceleration architecture and also supports 
ViRGE/GX2 (86C357), ViRGE/MX (86C260), Trio3D (86C365), Trio3D/2X (86C362), 
Savage3D (86C391) and Savage4 (86C396/86C397) chips as of 3.3.5.</p>
<p>The following sections describe details of ViRGE support.  Be aware that
there are two servers described.  XF86_S3V is the ViRGE specific server
and was created first.  The new acceleration architecture support is found
in the XF86_SVGA server using the s3_virge driver.  Each has strengths and
weaknesses.</p>

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