Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread Gianluca Bonetti
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

Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread Gary Lee Phillips
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

Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread Gianluca Bonetti
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

Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread Gary Lee Phillips
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

Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread James Andrewartha
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

Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread Gary Lee Phillips
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!

Antwort: Re: S3 Trio64 support

2007-11-04 Thread Steffen . Pelzetter
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