Okay, I just made another unsuccessful attempt to get an XF86 and
Ethernet-enabled Debian system running. The NIC and the video card
are both pretty common, so I _thought_ that they would be supported.
Looks like I was wrong yet again.
Anyway, the video setup is an S3Virge (86C325) with 4MB RAM, and my
monitor is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan 17se (HZ-Freq: 31.5-82 / Vt-
Freq: 50-150)
After running XF86Config, and making the correct settings, I run
startx, and this is the crappe that I get...
(WW) S3VIRGE: No matching device section for instance (Bus
ID:0:17:0)
(EE) No devices detected
Fatal Server Error
no screens found
I checked /etc/X11/XF86Config and as far as I could tell, everything
looked correct. This very same system has recently been used with
RedHat 7.2 as well as SuSE 7.0 and Knoppix. and I had no problems
getting the X-Server going and botting up to the GNOME desktop. So
why isn't it working now?
And then there's the NIC. During bootup, I see a message scroll by
that indicated that the NIC was detected (It's a 3c905b Fast
EtherLink PCI/XL). But after I log in, ifconfig does not show any
signs that the card exists at all. When I installed Debian, I
didn't see any option for any type of 3c90x NIC, though there were
plenty of other 3COM NICs listed. Again, this worked fine with
RedHat, SuSE, and Knoppix. So why won't it work with Debian?
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