I have an IBM PC 300 GL 6285-66U with S3 Trio OnBoard, 4MB video memory. The chip is 86C366 (I'm sure about the "366" part, but might be crossing something on the "86C".)
I've installed Mandrake and some other distributions and I typically get 16 color, 1024x768 or greater, etc. Live CD distributions also work fine, so I think the root of my problem has to do with the way Debian identifies or interoperates with my system hardware. With Debian, it always installs VESA VGA and none of the S3 servers I've tried works. (I've never tried the "365" server, and there is no "366" server listed in Debian's list.) I installed XFree86 4.5.0 successfully (after running the xinstall.sh with the option for checking my libc version). When I run xinstall -autoconfig, I see the first screen (an 'x' cursor on the gray screen), but it hangs there. When I run xinstall - configure, it comes back with the message that it can't start the X server. I realize that I'm not providing the deepest technical information, but I'm not sure what logs or other files would allow the problem to be diagnosed. Is there something about Debian that I could take into account or "fix" to get this working? It's hard for me to understand how the other distros "grok" my hardware while Debian comes up with a blank. Please and thanks, James -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [email protected] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
