Gary Phillips wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-s3 > Version: 1:0.4.1-5 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Digital Alpha PWS433au with 1GB RAM, Debian 4.0 (etch) > S3 Trio 64+ video card (which works on this hardware with both Windows > NT 4.0 and OpenVMS 8.3) > Whether manually configured or set up with Xorg -configure, when X is > run the display fills with random colored pixels, keyboard and mouse are > disabled, and machine must be rebooted in order to recover control. When > X is run with -probeonly, the only error it reports is "Unable to find > V_BIOS". When lspci -v is run, it reports that the Video ROM is present > but [disabled]. >
Is there anything to configure in the Alpha BIOS or whatever to help this? Can something more recent than Etch? The S3 driver is been a bit updated since Etch, and the Xserver is much more recent. Trying Xorg fro; testing might be good, for instance. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
