On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:52:34PM +0100, Jason Dobbs wrote: > >> 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. > > >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 > > http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.html states :- > "Support (accelerated) for the 964 (revisions 0 and 1), 968, Trio32, > Trio64, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and > PLATO/PX is provided by the "s3" driver (however, only models using > the IBM RGB 524, Texas Instruments 3025, or an internal TrioDAC RAMDAC > chip are supported)." > > I tried to figure out what RAMDAC was in this card, but didn't reach a > definite conclusion. Well, your logs from 3.3.6 seem to indicate an internal RAMDAC: > (--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64 > (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz ...though I admit the Status document could have been much more clear and explicit in this respect. > I did try for quite some time (several evenings, > googling, reading xfree86 documentation and trying things out) to get > 4.3 to go, but to no avail. My conclusion was that 3.3.6 works for > me, but 4.3 does not. I think it's inevitable that this scenario will > be hit for older hardware, hence my comment about it would be nice if > sarge could support it Have you tried the "vga" or "vesa" drivers in 4.3 instead? -- G. Branden Robinson | The only way to get rid of a Debian GNU/Linux | temptation is to yield to it. branden@debian.org | -- Oscar Wilde http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature