From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Getting a valid display under Debian revisited Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:33:26 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20031210073147.01f9c8e8@celine> References: <1071046313.760.1.camel@DebiAnarchist> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1071046313.760.1.camel@DebiAnarchist> References: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 07:51 PM 12/10/2003 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote: >There are several S3 cards. I had a similar problem with the S3Trio >dx/gx, I think it was ... apparently the drivers are quite specific for >the model. > >On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:18, jamtat@mailsnare.net wrote: > > I was finally able to get a working display by using the vesa xserver. I > > can get 1024x768 with 16 bit color with this. Strange that the S3 > > xserver, which is supposed to be for this card, would not work. Any ideas > > why, anyone? The original message was a bit more specifci than this, referring to an "S3Trio64v+ video card" ... but that identifier is for a chip, not a card, and the X documentation (at www.xfree86.org) says that the current S3 server works only for S3Trio64v+ video cards that use specific RAMDAC chips. So it *could* still be a hardware compatibility issue. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs