I have a Personal Workstation 433au with an S3 86c764/765 (Trio 32/64/64+) graphics card in it. This works with Windows and with OpenVMS just fine. I assume it was working with Tru64 UNIX as well, as that is what was installed when I obtained this box.
However, I can't find a suitable X driver or configuration to get this card to work even at plain VGA levels with Alpha Linux. Logically, the s3 driver should do the trick but no matter what I try, it doesn't activate the card. DEC did sell a lot of these with that card in them, I believe, and it seems as if we must have support for it buried somewhere. However, even the man page for the s3 driver is missing from the current distribution, though the driver is still included. I could actually live without X on this machine, since it works well enough as a client to other machines. However, I really would like to at least have a shell interface from the console, and even that does not work. Booting from SRM (which finds the keyboard and video card without difficulty) I do get the bootup messages right up to the point at which Apache loads. I think this is part of init level 3. Then the display stops updating, and the keyboard is unresponsive. The system finishes booting and can be reached via ssh from another node, though. What do I have to do to keep the attached keyboard and monitor working? --Gary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
