On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Meelis Roos wrote:

> 
> I tried the card in x86 to see if the RAM size is detected right there
> but I had little success. First the PC didn't like F-COde ROM so the
> card could not be used as the primary card. Running atimach64 as primary
> and s3virge as secondary didn't work either - both wanted to decode VGA
> addresses and some chars appeared on screen but some in the video ram of
> the other card. Finally it booted up using s3virge dx as primary and
> this (effectively biosless) s3virge as secondary. But I have big trouble
> running X - I configured XF 4.2.1 for this card but it tends to hang on
> DDC, Accel etc. I couldn't squeeze the guessed videoram size out of it
> so I don't know whether X detects the right videoram size on x86.

If you are having problems with DDC you might want to try some of these:
   Option      "NoDDC"
   Option      "NoDDC1"
   Option      "NoDDC2"
   Option      "NoVBE"

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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