Re: Virtual PC 5.2

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Michael Martinell wrote:
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> I have tried every card (I think) listed and I have not had any luck 
> with virtual pc.
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> If anybody out there knows what it takes to configure the startx for the 
> virtual pc environment I would be interested.  I know that it works, as 
> I had it running with Knoppix at one time.  Unfortunately my knoppix 
> disk got a big scratch and I have not downloaded it again.
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> I have been using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to try to set this up.

Does "lspci" give you any indication as to what video chipset is detected?


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> Hi,
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> I hope this is the place for newbie questions...
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> I am trying to install Debian on Virtual PC 5.2 (on a wintel box)
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> The first part of the install works fine, but I am having trouble
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> getting X-Windows to work.  I have edited the XF86Config file
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> to use the s3 driver, but I think I have made a mistake somewhere.
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> The output from startx (or at least the last part of the output)
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>     (II) S3VIRGE: driver (version 1.6.13) for S3 ViRGE chipsets: virge,
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> 86C3
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>            virge vx, 86C988, virge dx, virge gx, 86C375, 86C385, virge
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> gx2,
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>            86C357, virge mx, 86C260, virge mx+, 86C280, trio 3d, 86C365,
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>            trio 3d/2x, 86C362, 86C368
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>     (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
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>     (EE) No devices detected.
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>     Fatal server error:
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>     no screens found
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> I can't figure out if this means that the driver is not detecting the
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> video card, or whether it means I have made a mistake in the
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> configuration
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> file.  Any help on this would be appreciated.
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> Adelle.
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