Re: [XFree86] W32 and ET6000

[Yury Tarasievich]

Harald Nordg�rd-Hansen wrote:

Yury Tarasievich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

But posting the XF86Config-4 file would certainly help
eliminating that possibility.

Yep.

I vaguely remember from my 3.3.* experience that amount of VideoRAM
should *not* be set in X config file when working with Tseng X
server. I never succeeded in starting X with that option specified.

It's important not specifying it wrongly. And the correct value does
not neccessarily coincide with the actual amount of ram. :) So I
would guess specifying it could easily fail, yes.

(If my memory works today, part of the problem was that there was a
register file or something located just below 4MB, which meant that a
card with the full possible 4MB memory had to have 8kb subtracted from
the memory size in order to work. :)

I still own ET6000 with famous 2.25Mb feature (or was it notorious feature? :)

In X 3.3.*, I never succeeded in telling it about having 2304Kb of memory (VideoRAM 2304 was sure way to have X not started), and autodetect always detected 2048Kb, so depriving me of some (seemingly present) video modes. I didn't even try VideoRAM directive in 4.* :) Were there any Tsengs ET6K with exactly 2048Kb?

I also never succeeded in adding video memory to my ET6000 adapter. :)

So for beginning try removing XFree86-W32 and then reinstalling
XFree86-4.whatever-you-have-there. After configuring it revise your
config (comment out VideoRAM directive).

Well, removing the package is probably a good idea anyway.  The
logfile was from XFree86 4.x, though.

So what is the XFree86-W32-3.3.6 doing there? Is its presence of any significance?

And it indicated that there was
no VideoRAM directive, but that should also be verified.

In addition I would probably have tried the card in a Windows-box or
something, to verify that the hardware isn't broken. Some of the
values in the logfile indicate some serious breakage.

I recall now, there can be some combinations of motherboards and ET6K's that produce problems. I used ET6000 with some Tomato 430HX MB for some time, and it just didn't do bitblits correctly in VGA mode! (FUBAR'ed lists, controls backgrounds and alike) Setting up Win95 was a real challenge. :)


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