Re: S3 Trio64 support
On 04/11/2007 00:28:55, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
I have a Personal Workstation 433au with an S3 86c764/765 (Trio
32/64/64+) graphics card in it. This works with Windows and with
OpenVMS just fine. I assume it was working with Tru64 UNIX as well,
as that is what was installed when I obtained this box.
However, I can't find a suitable X driver or configuration to get
this card to work even at plain VGA levels with Alpha Linux.
Logically, the s3 driver should do the trick but no matter what I
try, it doesn't activate the card. DEC did sell a lot of these with
that card in them, I believe, and it seems as if we must have support
for it buried somewhere. However, even the man page for the s3 driver
is missing from the current distribution, though the driver is still
included.
Hello Gary! :)
The card should be supported by the 's3' video driver.
In Etch, we have version 1:0.4.1-5 which is not the latest release
(version 1:0.5.0-4)
It seems that the driver is bugged and failing, but by now, there is no
issue in bugreport:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=
xserver-xorg-video-s3&archive=no&version=&dist=stable
Please try 'Xorg -configure' that prepares a new xorg.conf in your
~home.
Then use 'Xorg -config <new-config-file>'
If it doesn't work, then the driver is buggy and please open a bug
report.
In the testing stage of Etch, I had the same problem with Voodoo 5/5500
and MGA G450. Hence it was a problem common to all drivers.
Today, those X drivers work on my PWS 500a.
I could actually live without X on this machine, since it works well
enough as a client to other machines. However, I really would like to
at least have a shell interface from the console, and even that does
not work. Booting from SRM (which finds the keyboard and video card
without difficulty) I do get the bootup messages right up to the
point at which Apache loads. I think this is part of init level 3.
Then the display stops updating, and the keyboard is unresponsive.
The system finishes booting and can be reached via ssh from another
node, though. What do I have to do to keep the attached keyboard and
monitor working?
Debian only uses runlevel 2 for everything, including X.
If I understand correctly, you see boot messages on the console, but at
last it becomes black or unreadable.
It should be X that loads and makes the card unworking.
You should boot by SRM appending the parameter 's' or '1' to boot in a
runlevel where X doesn't load.
Then remove (or use update-rc.d) the symlink in /etc/rc2.d/ that points
to a login manager (xdm|kdm|gdm|wdm|whatever-else-dm)
Tipically, it should be /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm
After removing, you should boot up to a point where X doesn't load.
Bye!
gl
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