On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:30:32PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Jason Dobbs <jdobbs@postmaster.co.uk> [2004-05-25 21:18]: > > Unfortunately, I could not get the graphics card working > > for the version of XFree86 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-1) currently in sarge. It's a PCI > > Diamond Multimedia Stealth 64 Video 2001 Series card with 1MB ram, which > > has a S3 Trio 64V+ chipset. I tried S3, VESA & VGA drivers, but the best I > > could come up with was a 640x480 VESA mode. So I installed Woody and got > > Xfree86 version 3.3.6 running just fine with a 800x600 16bpp mode. However, > > Sarge no longer supports Xfree86 3.3.6, and I would really prefer to be running > > Sarge. So I reinstalled Sarge, and tried to build Xfree86 3.3.6 from source. > > This effort failed, for various reasons (compiler related, I suspect). > > There are some cards which are no longer supported in 4.x, but I don't > know if the S3 Trio is one of them. I'm CCing the debian-x list for > more comments. Can you please send the XFree86 logs from 3.3.6? Please see: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.html -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it branden@debian.org | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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