Re: Xorg driver for old S3 cards in unstable
On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:23, David Goodenough wrote:
> I realise that there are some problems with the new modular xorg in
> unstable at the moment, but I have a small dilema which seems to be
> different from the ones already discussed on this forum.
>
> I have a sacrificial machine which I upgrade each morning to the latest
> level on unstable. It is a very old machine (and old IBM 750-P90 but with
> an Evergreen 400MHz go faster processor in it. It is slow, but does the
> job.
>
> It has an S3 86C864 chip for driver the screen, which was handled by
> the old S3 driver back in XFree 3.x days. Up until this most recent
> version of xorg I have been able to use the old 3.x driver and as long
> as I configured it in XF86Config I was OK.
>
> With this latest set of upgrades the old driver was removed, and there
> are references to xserver-xorg-video-s3 as a package, which is supposed
> to provide support for old s3 chips, hopefully including mine.
>
> But the xserver-xorg-video-s3 package only seems to include the
> /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-s3 directory and its changelog and
> a copyright. No driver.
>
> According to packages.debian.org the actual drivers are in xserver-xorg,
> but that is only a tiny little package with no video drivers. But that
> list is out of date (April 5) so I guess it may be that the packages may
> have been reocrganised. One clue to this is that it lists the files as
> being in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules where actually the drivers are now in
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers.
>
> So does anyone know what has happened to the S3 driver, whether it
> is supposed to be there, and if so whether there is a special package
> I need to install to find it.
>
> Regards
>
> David
One further piece of information.
apt-file and dpkg differ about what files are present in xserver-xorg.
apt-file says that s3_drv.so is present in that file, and dpkg -c can not
find it, and dpkg -S can not find the file.
David
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