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Re: graphic system setup



On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:52:14 -0500
David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote:

> > My card is a S3 TrioV64+, but I don't know the memory size. I've tried
> >>From 256k to 2M.
> 
> I think S3 cards in general lost support between XFree86 3.3 and 4.0;
> you might try using the older X servers in woody, e.g. xserver-s3.

Certainly for the S3 Virge on the Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop, the only 4.x
driver
that works is the VESA one. The S3 driver just causes the screen to fade
slowly to white (ish).

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