On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:23:27 -0500 , Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> >There are some cards which are no longer supported in 4.x, but I don't >> >know if the S3 Trio is one of them. I'm CCing the debian-x list for >> >> http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.html states :- >> "Support (accelerated) for the 964 (revisions 0 and 1), 968, Trio32, >> Trio64, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and >> PLATO/PX is provided by the "s3" driver (however, only models using >> the IBM RGB 524, Texas Instruments 3025, or an internal TrioDAC RAMDAC >> chip are supported)." >> >> I tried to figure out what RAMDAC was in this card, but didn't reach a >> definite conclusion. > >Well, your logs from 3.3.6 seem to indicate an internal RAMDAC: > >> (--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64 >> (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz
So, if the xfree status document is to be believed, it should work. However, it did not work for me - perhaps there is something I'm missing. >Have you tried the "vga" or "vesa" drivers in 4.3 instead? I did try both, but the best I could come up with was a 640x480 VESA mode. I also tried the Damn Small Linux 0.71 live CD distro. This is Knoppix-based, with the kdrive xservers for framebuffer & vesa. I again got a 640x480 VESA mode, and surprisingly a 1024x764 8bpp VESA mode (with some screen corruption). No 800x600 VESA mode worked with kdrive or xfre86 4.3.0 servers, which is what I want to use (and have under 3.3.6). Incidently, the kdrive xserver was very memory efficient, as advertised. Daniel Serpell wrote :- > Until about four months ago, I had a Trio64V+ based card working in Debian sid. ... > the card was actually made by Diammond Multimedia > (I don't recall the exact model number), so > I suspect that was the same as > the bug reporter's card. If you could post a known-working XF86Config-4 file for your card, I would try it out. > The setup was straitforward (selected S3 driver, enter in the other questions) Well, I tried that, without sucess. My conclusion is I'm going with the chroot'ed 3.3.6 on this box, until something better comes along (a known working XF86Config-4 file for 4.3.0 would be perfect, a different X would server also be fine). Thanks for your efforts (in this case, and in general) - Jason ___________________________________________________ Take your business online with Officemaster. Sign up for a free trial today! http://www.officemaster.net
