Bug#198386: Sorry - hardware does *not* work with any 4.x!

[Andreas Krüger <andreas.krueger@famsik.de>]

Ooops!

I have to revoke some of the information I have been giving.  This
hardware does not work with *any* X 4.x.

On the old system, the one with X working, the X server I am actually
running was

> XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: January 8 2000
...
> Configured drivers:
>   S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
>       newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic
...


Come to look for it, I do have two X servers installed next to each other:

   $ dpkg -s xserver-s3
   Package: xserver-s3
   Status: install ok installed
   Priority: optional
   Section: x11
   Installed-Size: 2388
   Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
   Source: xfree86v3
   Version: 3.3.6-23
   Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.1-1)
   Provides: xserver
   Depends: xserver-common-v3 (>= 3.3.6-17), libc6 (>= 2.1.97), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3)
   Description: X server for S3 chipset-based graphics cards
   ...

   $ dpkg -s xserver-xfree86
   Package: xserver-xfree86
   Status: install ok installed
   Priority: optional
   Section: x11
   Installed-Size: 11288
   Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
   Source: xfree86
   Version: 4.0.2-1
   Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt (<< 1:1.3.0.1-13)
   Provides: xserver
   Depends: xserver-common (>> 4.0), debconf (>= 0.2.26), libc6 (>= 2.1.97), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3)
   Suggests: mdetect, read-edid
   Description: the XFree86 X server
   ...

Installing a 4.x xserver and running 3.3 - is that a bug or a feature?


I found nothing in /etc/alternatives, but I do have a symbolic link

   $ ls -l /etc/X11/X
   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 29. Dez 2000  /etc/X11/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3

When I change that to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86, I get the exact
same trouble with 4.0 as I do with 4.2 and 4.3.

Did I ever mention that I do get screen output?  Well, I do.

The screen blackens every once in a while.  But that could result from
ntpd madly trying to keep the system clock on track, combined with the
screen saver.

So the information that my hardware works with some 4.* version of X
was plain wrong.

(The hardware does run nicely with the above 3.3.6.)

Regards,

Andreas

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