Re: Configure xserver-xfree86
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:49:40PM -0500, donald szatkowski wrote:
> I am trying to set up my xserver and am having trouble finding the
> correct area to find a reference for requested info. In particular, the
> configuration asks for the driver. My video card is an S3. From the
> Free86.org site it seems the S3 driver is required, but Debian30r2 only
> has S3Savage for a driver.
If you're running Woody, and using Xfree V 3.<something>, there is a
separate xserver-s3 (IIRC) driver. Also, IIRC, I ran this driver with
V4 (I _think_).
I originally had trouble getting XFree V4 running, but finally with 4.3,
got it to work with the s3 driver. I had to drop my color depth to 16,
but it looks good.
> Now I am asked for the video card's bus
> identifier. Here is where I can not find a reference to help. Displayed
> in the config. window is "PCI:00:14:0".
FWIW, I have mine connecgted to 00:10:0. I specified this in my
XF86Config-4, but don't ask me now how I came up with this. My
/var/log/XFree86.0.log shows probably 30-some BusID's that it says
there's no Card listed for, so any of these _might_ work..
BTW, my S3 chip is the 968 series.
> If someone could direct me to
> the source to decipher this. Is this pci bus 00 irq 14? pci bus 00 irq
> 0? How do I interpret this entry?
I don't think it's IRQ, Mine's connected to IRQ 12 on 00:10:0 (The 10 is
decimal, not hex)
> Just a reference or direction to look
> is fine, I'll do the work. I have looked at XFree86.org and could find
> nothing.
I think the way I did it was to just try things till I got a "picture".
>From what I read here, the Sarge installer might make life easier for
you if you could start from a fresh install.
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