Fedora Core 5 S3/S3Virge videocard support problems.

[Alex Deucher]

the Trio3D and Trio64 are slightly different and s3virge handles the
former, s3 the latter.  That said, from a modesetting perspective all
the s3 chips are pretty similar (even savage).

Alex

On 4/12/06, Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think the driver for S3 Trio64(86C764X) is s3, not s3virge. Because i
> just installed a second S3 Trio64(86C765) with driver "s3" and it works.
>
> try to use "X -configure" in console mode to let Xserver detect the card
> automatically.
>
> Weimin
>
>
> >From: Crazy AMD K7 <100megabit at mail.ru>
> >Reply-To: Crazy AMD K7 <100megabit at mail.ru>
> >To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: Fedora Core 5 S3/S3Virge videocard support problems.
> >Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:22:17 +0400
> >
> >Hello all Fedora Core 5 and Xorg users and developers.
> >I have upgraded to Fedora Core 5 and there are problems with S3
> >videocards. I have two questions.
> >
> >1. How to make s3 trio 64(86C764X)videocard to work?
> >
> >2. As I have read "man s3virge" it is supported.
> >How to make s3virge /DX(86C375) to work?
> >
> >X Window System Version 7.0.0
> >Release Date: 21 December 2005
> >X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
> >Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.9-22.18.bz155725.ELsmp i686Red Hat, Inc.
> >Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1
> Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686
> >Build Date: 06 March 2006
> >         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
> >         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> >Module Loader present
> >Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> >         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> >         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> >(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Apr 12 16:29:56 2006
> >(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> >Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> >Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x30000000 end: 0x300fffff
> size 0x30030000
> >Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xe0000000 end: 0xe7ffffff
> size 0x30030000
> >Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x30000000 end: 0x300fffff
> size 0x30030000
> >Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xe0000000 end: 0xe7ffffff
> size 0x30030000
> >Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x30000000 end: 0x300fffff
> size 0x30030000
> >Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xe0000000 end: 0xe7ffffff
> size 0x30030000
> >(EE) S3VIRGE(0): Cannot read V_BIOS
> >
> >X are started, the screen is black, no mouse pointer or cursor, no
> >picture. Upper text output is made by running
> >startx >output.txt 2>&1
> >Changing of console CTRL+ALT+F1... dosn't work.
> >CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE dosn't work, too.
> >Pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL makes computer to reboot in 1-2 minutes.
> >Please help me to make s3 and s3virge videocards to work.
> >
> >#lspci
> >02:03.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01)
> >#uname -a
> >Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST
> 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> >Pasha
> >
> >
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