Does Xorg 6.9/7.0 support the old PCI graphic card S3 Trio64?

Shawn Starr shawn.starr at rogers.com
Tue Apr 11 22:58:53 PDT 2006


On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:51, Ma Weimin wrote:
> Hello Shawn,
>
> How many video ram has your s3 card? 

The onboard device has 4MB total.

The video driver part of my xorg.conf:

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Device configured by xorgconfig:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "** S3 ViRGE (generic)                 [s3virge]"
    Driver          "s3virge"
    VideoRam   4096
    Option        "fifo_moderate"              "on"
    #Option      "RenderAccel"               "true"
    #Option      "AccelMethod"               "xaa" #"exa"
EndSection

The Trio64 3D needs the s3virge driver.


> If i assign a wrong number, will that 
> be problem? Could you send me a copy of your xorg.conf?
>
> Weimin
>
> >From: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com>
> >Reply-To: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com>
> >To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>, Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com>
> >CC: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: Re: Does Xorg 6.9/7.0 support the old PCI graphic card S3 Trio64?
> >Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:43:27 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Should work, I have an onboard S3 Trio3D 64
> >01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio 64 3D (rev 01)
> >
> >Xorg works ok with the driver, though I have to jiggle the xorg config to
>
> get it to use the right refresh rate.
>
> >Shawn.
> >
> >----- Original Message ----
> >From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> >To: Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com>
> >Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:19:54 AM
> >Subject: Re: Does Xorg 6.9/7.0 support the old PCI graphic card S3 Trio64?
> >
> >On 4/11/06, Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > my current system is: Mandriva 2006, Xorg 6.9.0 and integrated graphic
>
> card
>
> > > Intel i810. And it works perfect.
> > >
> > > I'm planning to use dual monitors with a sencond graphic cards, which
>
> is a
>
> > > very old PCI card S3 Trio64. It works on Widnows 98, so there's no
>
> problem
>
> > > with the card itself. I did exactly following the instructions of
>
> xinerama.
>
> > > But i failed to get Trio64 to work. Here are the informations.
> >
> >It should be supported by the s3 driver, depending on which DAC is
> >used.  the s3 driver doesn't support all the DACs that were used in
> >conjuction with s3 chips of that period. specify "s3" for the driver.
> >
> > > When I ran "X -configure", i got the this. However, I don't miss the
>
> file
>
> > > apm_drv.so.
> > > failed load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/apm_drv.so
> > > failed to load modules "apm" (loader failed, 7)
> > >
> > > When I ran "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new" anyway, such errors could be
> > > found in "/var/log/X11.0.log" file.
> > > (EE) Cannot shmat() high memory
> > > (EE) shmget error: Invalid argument
> > >
> > > I have heard that Xorg 6.7 supports Trio64, but Xorg 6.9 not any more.
>
> Is
>
> > > that true? Does 7.0 support it? Is there any way to make Trio64 work
> > > without downgrading Xorg to 6.7?
> >
> >the s3 driver hasn't changed between 6.7 and 6.9/7.0 so that driver
> >should still work.  If you are still having trouble, post your log and
> >updated config.
> >
> >Alex
> >
> > > Any Ideas would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Weimin
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is the created xorg.conf.new from X -configure.
> > >
> > > Section "ServerLayout"
> > >         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> > >         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> > >         Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> > >         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > >         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Files"
> > >         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> > >         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> > >         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> > >         FontPath     "unix/:-1"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Module"
> > >         Load  "dbe"
> > >         Load  "dri"
> > >         Load  "extmod"
> > >         Load  "glx"
> > >         Load  "record"
> > >         Load  "xtrap"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "InputDevice"
> > >         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> > >         Driver      "kbd"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "InputDevice"
> > >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> > >         Driver      "mouse"
> > >         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
> > >         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> > >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Monitor"
> > >         #DisplaySize      310   230     # mm
> > >         Identifier   "Monitor0"
> > >         VendorName   "GSM"
> > >         ModelName    "FLATRON 774FT"
> > >  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
> > >         HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
> > >         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
> > >         Option      "DPMS"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Monitor"
> > >         Identifier   "Monitor1"
> > >         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> > >         ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >         ### Available Driver options are:-
> > >         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> > >         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> > >         ### [arg]: arg optional
> > >         #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "ColorKey"                  # <i>
> > >         #Option     "CacheLines"                # <i>
> > >         #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "NoDDC"                     # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"              # <i>
> > >         #Option     "PageFlip"                  # [<bool>]
> > >         Identifier  "Card0"
> > >         Driver      "i810"
> > >         VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
> > >         BoardName   "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated
>
> Graphics Device"
>
> > >         BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >         ### Available Driver options are:-
> > >         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> > >         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> > >         ### [arg]: arg optional
> > >         #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "DefaultRefresh"            # [<bool>]
> > >         #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"        # [<bool>]
> > >         Identifier  "Card1"
> > >         Driver      "vesa"
> > >         VendorName  "Unknown Vendor"
> > >         BoardName   "Unknown Board"
> > >         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > >         Identifier "Screen0"
> > >         Device     "Card0"
> > >         Monitor    "Monitor0"
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     1
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     4
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     8
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     15
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     16
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     24
> > >         EndSubSection
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > >         Identifier "Screen1"
> > >         Device     "Card1"
> > >         Monitor    "Monitor1"
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     1
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     4
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     8
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     15
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     16
> > >         EndSubSection
> > >         SubSection "Display"
> > >                 Viewport   0 0
> > >                 Depth     24
> > >         EndSubSection
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > >
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