Eurisko wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a big problem: I have a S3 video card with 4 Mb but I'm not able to > make it work fine. > > I've tried with the S3 and SVGA servers, but it only works with the VGA16. > > Video Card Specifications: > > S3 Trio 3D2x Version 2.0B.06 > > SuperProbe report chipset: 0x8a13
>From the XFree86 FAQ at http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#Trio3D: > Q.F18- Is a server for the S3 Trio3D or the S3 Savage3D available? > > Boards based on those two S3 chips are not supported in XFree86. XFree86 has > only recently > (November 98) received the documentation for these chips, so development is > underway. This will > take some time. This FAQ will be updated as soon as a server is available. > > Q.F19- Is a server for the Voodoo Banshee or other 3Dfx chips available? > > Boards based on Voodoo Banshee (or any other 3Dfx chips) are not supported in > XFree86, as > programming documentation is not available. We are working with 3dfx on a > solution to solve this > problem but haven't been successful, yet. Currently work has started on a > server with documents > that were given under NDA, no schedule for a release of such a server is > known, though. > > Q.F20- Is there any other way I can get an unsupported card to work? > > Well, there is. If you are running Linux and the card is VBE-2.0 compliant in > hardware. > Unfortunately even today many new cards are not. But if yours is, then you > can setup a late > version of the Linux kernel (anything newer than 2.1.119 should do) with > vesafb and use the > XF86_FBDev server with it. Anthony D'Amico has a nice introduction how to do > this at > http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/, where he describes how to get the > Banshee to work. > Note that the section there about installing the XF68_FBDev X server can be > omitted. Instead use > the XF86_FBDev that is provided as part of XFree86 3.3.3.1. This works in a > very similar way for other > VBE-2.0 compliant cards as well.
