On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 01:21:11PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > I have tried debian-user and xfree86 but didn't got a reply. > Hopefully someone here will be able to help. In addition, maybe others > with the same old card can tell whether it works for them? > The following is for an old machine that is being used as a desk top. > It used to follow testing rather closely until the break occurred. > However due to the old hardware it must use xserver-s3 from the old 3.3 > tree. This is so because as far as I can tell there is no newer server > for this VLB card. I believe the source classifies this bus as part of > the ISA bus and mentions that it will be supported in the distant > future. Am I wrong? Follows /var/log/xdm/log. The exact identification > of the hardware can be seen here. > > (**) S3: Option "power_saver" > (--) S3: card type: 386/486 localbus > (--) S3: videoram: 2048k > (--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio32 > (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz If this is indeed a Trio32, as it semes it is, it should be supported in 4.2.1-6, which is currently in sid (unstable). > As an aside, is there a way to build only some debs and not the whole > X suit? I have tried to use pbuilder on the Debian sources. However the > building process got into a D state, probably due to load on the > machine. When the load was removed it got out of the D state but took > Gigs of disk space. I had to kill it. I believe both the D state and the > need for tremendous disk space were when using groff or something > similar to create the docs. There isn't an easy to just build the server, no. You'll need a little over 4gb for a complete build of XFree86. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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