Re: ??Woody Support for S3 Inc. Unknown device 8c2e (rev 05) VGA?
I have a pile of the S3 Trio64 cards laying around. You can configure
them for woody with:
apt-get install xserver-s3
This will be XFree 3.3.6. Apparently XFree 4.2 supports the Trio cards
thou, but that doesnt help if you are in testing right now.
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:58:24PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> > | Does the XFree 4.1.0.1 support the following chip?:
> > | S3 Inc. Unknown device 8c2e (rev 05) VGA
> >
> > Look at www.xfree86.org. S3 chips are supported.
> >
> > | Any input on configuring X for it?
> >
> > I don't think it supports VESA so vesafb (my cop-out from configuring
> > X) won't work. Run 'XFree86 -configure' (or something like that) to
> > get a config to start with. Then tweak it until it works.
> >
> > -D
> >
>
> Some S3 chips are still not recognized by XFree86 4.1 (they are in
> XFree86 4.2, though).
> Anything like S3 Virge or more recent IS supported.
>
> The chip you are using must be earlier than S3 Virge (S3 Trio 64V+ or S3
> Trio 32, or something).
>
> Those are not supported by the "vesa" driver either because they are
> VESA 1.2 compliant, not VESA 2.0, which is required by the kernel module
> "vesafb".
> You'll find all this info in documentation of XFree86 (for the version
> you use), they even have a supported-drivers list on their website.
> The other source is the kernel documentation of the "vesafb" module.
>
> Hope it helps
>
>
>
>
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