Bug#476876: xserver-xorg-video-s3: S3 server crash/lockup with S3 Trio 64+
Gary Phillips wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-s3
> Version: 1:0.4.1-5
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> Digital Alpha PWS433au with 1GB RAM, Debian 4.0 (etch)
> S3 Trio 64+ video card (which works on this hardware with both Windows
> NT 4.0 and OpenVMS 8.3)
> Whether manually configured or set up with Xorg -configure, when X is
> run the display fills with random colored pixels, keyboard and mouse are
> disabled, and machine must be rebooted in order to recover control. When
> X is run with -probeonly, the only error it reports is "Unable to find
> V_BIOS". When lspci -v is run, it reports that the Video ROM is present
> but [disabled].
>
Is there anything to configure in the Alpha BIOS or whatever to help this?
Can something more recent than Etch? The S3 driver is been a bit updated
since Etch, and the Xserver is much more recent. Trying Xorg fro;
testing might be good, for instance.
Brice
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