Bug#250915: installation-report
>> Unfortunately, I could not get the graphics card working
>> for the version of XFree86 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-1) currently in sarge. It's a PCI
>> Diamond Multimedia Stealth 64 Video 2001 Series card with 1MB ram, which
>> has a S3 Trio 64V+ chipset. I tried S3, VESA & VGA drivers, but the best I
>> could come up with was a 640x480 VESA mode. So I installed Woody and got
>> Xfree86 version 3.3.6 running just fine with a 800x600 16bpp mode.
>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. I did try for quite some time (several evenings, googling, reading xfree86 documentation and trying things out) to get 4.3 to go, but to no avail. My conclusion was that 3.3.6 works for me, but 4.3 does not. I think it's inevitable that this scenario will be hit for older hardware, hence my comment about it would be nice if sarge could support it (even if it's just a writeup on how to get a chroot'ed woody xfree86 3.3.6 going in sarge - I might do this once sarge becomes stable). Another idea would be to have kdrive/freedesktop.org xserver debian package. I'm going to try out Damn Small Linux on this box, just to see if the kdrive xserver works. Of course, having xfree86 3.3.6 packaged in sarge would have solved my problem without resorting to a woody chroot, but I suppose the debian-x people do not want to go down that road (I certainly am not up to the job, given my failed attempt to build the thing)
>more comments. Can you please send the XFree86 logs from 3.3.6?
Here they are :-
XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: xx November 2000
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic
(using VT number 7)
XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: keycodes: "xfree86"
(**) XKB: types: "default"
(**) XKB: compat: "default"
(**) XKB: symbols: "us(pc104)"
(**) XKB: geometry: "pc"
(**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3
(**) S3: Graphics device ID: "S3"
(**) S3: Monitor ID: "Eizo"
(--) S3: Mode "640x480" needs vert refresh rate of 100.02 Hz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "800x600" needs vert refresh rate of 100.03 Hz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted.
(--) S3: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
(--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 54, Linear FB @ 0xf8000000
(--) S3: chipset: Trio64V+ rev. 54
(--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio
(--) S3: card type: PCI
(--) S3: Diamond Stealth BIOS found
(--) S3: videoram: 1024k
(--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64
(--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz
(--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 54.886 MHz)
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 95.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 60.750
(**) S3: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 36.000
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565
(--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xF8000000
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 1024k, line width of 800
(--) S3: Using a single 54x54 area at (746,601) for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 746x54 at (0,601) aligned 8 as font cache
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