Dear Gary
The S3 cards do work perfectly in an Alpha under Debian. If I remember
right, the S3 needs RAMDAC support and needed an XFree86 v3.x. I don't
know wether the latest Xorg or XFree86 supports this, it seems not...
(BTW: Have disabled graphical login? If not - comment out the login
Yes, I'm back again.
I can get the S3 Trio64 to operate using the Xorg vga driver, but only
in monochrome mode.
In theory, it should work with the fbdev and vesa drivers, but I've
had no success with either one. The vesa driver says Screen(s) found,
but none have a usable configuration. This
On Mon 05 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
There was a commercially available driver, but it wasn't open source
and had a $100 licensing fee. I remember that very specifically. I was
irritated because IBM was selling machines with Linux (RedHat)
preinstalled, yet they had the Matrox card in
On 11/6/07, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In http://xfree.org/3.3.6/MGA.html , dated December 1998, the support
for the Matrox is described; in one of the underlying pages:
* Makes extensive use of the graphics accelerator. This server is very
well accelerated, and is one of the
On 11/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Gary,
I had the same problem wirh my two Alphaserver 4100 and the trio video
card.
It was working fine in RedHat 7, but never in debian.
Boring spending so much time with that configuration issue, I bought 2
used matrox
On Mon 05 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
On 11/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Boring spending so much time with that configuration issue, I bought 2
used matrox millenium (also certified for that system) 10 eur per card.
It's ironic that you should mention Matrox.
There was a commercially available driver, but it wasn't open source
and had a $100 licensing fee. I remember that very specifically. I was
irritated because IBM was selling machines with Linux (RedHat)
preinstalled, yet they had the Matrox card in them and no driver.
Typical.
--Gary
On 11/5/07,
On 04/11/2007 00:28:55, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
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
Thanks for the hints. Unfortunately, without documentation on the
setup of the s3 driver, I'm not sure that it isn't just my error that
keeps it from working. That makes me reluctant to report my problems
as a bug or defect in the software. In fact, I'm still not sure
whether I should be using s3
On 04/11/2007 13:59:54, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
Thanks for the hints. Unfortunately, without documentation on the
setup of the s3 driver, I'm not sure that it isn't just my error that
keeps it from working. That makes me reluctant to report my problems
as a bug or defect in the software. In
On 11/4/07, Gianluca Bonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should use s3 driver, s3virge driver is for S3 Virge, not S3 Trio.
Xorg -configure will create automagically a file for your needs.
If it doesn't work with that file, then it is either a bug in the
driver, or an unsupported card
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
I thought that too, but aboot.conf doesn't have any console
specification included. I checked my theory by connecting a laptop to
the serial port, though, and it seems I was right that the console is
switching to the serial port when init mode 2
On 11/4/07, James Andrewartha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
In which case you should look at /etc/inittab and add (or uncomment) some
lines like the following:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
...[snip]
D'oh!
Hello Gary,
I had the same problem wirh my two Alphaserver 4100 and the trio video
card.
It was working fine in RedHat 7, but never in debian.
Boring spending so much time with that configuration issue, I bought 2
used matrox millenium (also certified for that system) 10 eur per card.
I was
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