I ran in the same problem as yours. So I put a Matrox Millenium II and everything works fine now. You should abandon s3virge. Hope this will help Best regards G. Girardello
-----Original Message----- From: Randall Wayth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vendredi, 4. mars 2005 05:07 To: [email protected] Subject: help: hang on X start with PSW500au and s3 virge Hi Folks, I have recently aquired an abandoned PWS500au and installed Debian on it. The existing video card in the machine was horrible: some TGA crap which only displays colour with 8 bits. So I aquired a second hand s3virge. This is a 2MB model without the memory expansion chips. This is running sarge with X4.3. The problem exists with a 2.4.18 or 2.6.8 kernel. Starting X with this new card invariably causes the whole machine to hang after the screen flickers for a moment and (sometimes) shows some horizontal lines. I have tried various options in the config file (attached below) but it always hangs. I have googled on this quite a bit to no avail, so I am hoping someone out there has solved this problem before. As far as I can tell, it *might* be one of two things: - the "known bugs" part of the s3virge man page <http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/s3virge.4.html> says "The VideoRam generic driver parameter is presently ignored by the s3virge driver. On PPC this is reported to cause problems for 2M cards, because they may autodetect as 4M." Since this is a 2M card, it could be trying to access memory it doesn't have. - something to do with bios emulation. I don't know anything about this, but a few posts from the past have mentioned it. Any help much appreciated. Thanks, Randall. config file: Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" # Load "GLcore" # Load "bitmap" # Load "dbe" # Load "ddc" # Load "dri" # Load "extmod" # Load "freetype" # Load "glx" # Load "int10" # Load "pex5" # Load "record" # Load "speedo" # Load "type1" # Load "vbe" # Load "xie" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "s3virge" ChipSet "86c325" VideoRam 2048 # Option "UseFB" "false" Option "NoAccel" # Option "slow_edoram" BusID "PCI:1:10:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 30-69 VertRefresh 48-120 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" # InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
