** Description changed: - Installing onto an old system (like PIII-800MGz) with PCI S3 Trio cards 1-2Mb video memory (1995-1997) makes the final system not usable out of the box: + Installing onto an old system (like PIII-800MGz with PCI S3 Trio cards 1-2Mb video memory: 1995-1998) makes the final system not usable out of the box: Initial boot progress page is broken: http://agafonov.pp.ru/S3Trio-2V.jpg , http://agafonov.pp.ru/S3Trio64.jpg - Then, xorg is filed to start with settings provided by install system (system is set up with default options). Logs show up all screen modes are not supported by hardware (S3 driver) so no usable screens found. + Then, xorg is failed to start with settings provided by install system (system is set up with default options). Logs show up all screen modes are not supported by hardware (S3 driver) so no usable screens found. Manually setting 800x600 as maximum resolution with DefaultDepth 16 in xorg.conf makes xorg to be able to run and show the gdm gui.
-- Old S3 PCI video cards not supported out-of-the-box https://launchpad.net/bugs/96687 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
