Bug#476876: xserver-xorg-video-s3: S3 server crash/lockup with S3 Trio 64+
The Alpha BIOS itself doesn't enable or disable anything, so I'm not
sure what I could do there. I'm not really sure what [disabled] means
in the lspci output anyway. It also reports that the SCSI controller
BIOS is disabled, but that is working fine.
I have kept Etch up to date, but only with the "stable" configuration.
The Xorg server shows a compile date in January of 2008, which really
doesn't seem that old, but I suppose I might be able to install
something from the testing or unstable packages. I tried switching to
a different video card, ELSA Gloria L, that has an S3ViRGE chip, but
that gives similar results, even though it seems to want the s3virge
driver or possibly the glint (it has two 3DLabs coprocessors on it.)
The ELSA card works with Windows NT on this box, but not with OpenVMS
so I swapped back to the S3 Trio.
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 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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