[Are you subscribed to this list?] On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > I have an S3 card which works in 3.3.6. It doesn't work under 4.2.1. > Should it? I believe /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/Status.gz mentions > the card as ibeing supported. > It worth mentioning that this card uses a VLB bus. > > $ cat /var/log/xdm.log [...] > (--) S3: chipset: Trio32 rev. 0 > (--) S3: chipset driver: mmio_928 > (**) S3: Option "power_saver" > (--) S3: card type: 386/486 localbus > (--) S3: videoram: 2048k > (--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio32 > (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz > (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 54.886 MHz) > (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz > (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 49.500 > (**) S3: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.500 > (**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 > (**) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1152x900 > (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xF3000000 > (--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1152 > (--) S3: Using a single 9x9 area at (1143,901) for expanding pixmaps > (--) S3: No font cache available [...] > (II) PCI: No PCI bus found There's the problem. XFree86 4.2.1 does support the Trio32/64, but unfortunately it doesn't support the VESA local bus. You might mail xpert@xfree86.org and ask if someone is interested in implementing VLB support. Be sure to ask for CCs if you're not subscribed to that list. -- G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decide to break Debian GNU/Linux | Kubrick's code of silence and then branden@debian.org | get drawn away from it to a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | discussion about cough medicine.
Attachment:
pgpX4TSm1tfRg.pgp
Description: PGP signature