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Re: Fw: xserver problem -no screens found



On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Simon Tierney wrote:
> 
> > I have examined the output (several pages of it) provided by Debian after
> > the Xserver fails to load.
> >
> > There are lines identifying the S3Trio card and the PCI bridge and a lot
> > of repeated lines:-
> > "not loading .debug_line"
> >
> > (II) loading s3virge
> > (II) S3VIRGE: driver (version 1.6.13)  etc
> >
> > then:-
> >
> > (assigning device section with no bus ID to primary device
> > (EE) no devices detected
> >
> > Fatal server error no screens found.

The S3 Trio64 is NOT an S3 ViRGe chipset.

The XFree86 4.x releases (until 4.3.0?) do NOT include S3 Trio64
support.

You MUST use XFree86 3.3.x servers for the S3 Trio64, IIRC.

Good luck.

 --Jay++

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