Dear experts
I posted a question on the newbie list
but was advised to post my question here since the solution might not be 
trivial.
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote:

> dear diamond stealth 64 lovers....
> 
> first some system specs:
> i run mandrake 8.2 on an old world g3 ppc
> xfree86-4.2.0 from the 4.2.0-10.3mdk package
> the problem that i have is:
> I want to get my second graphics adapter to work. a diamond stealth 64 vram:
> S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM] rev 0 (rev 0)

The Linux Hardware Database suggests that the chipset is an  S3 968 with 
the RAMDAC TI 3026-175 

http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1615

The XFree86 "current drivers" information suggests that although the 968 
is supported the RAMDAC may not be
(http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status28.html#28):

'Support (accelerated) for the [...], 968, [...] is provided by the "s3"
driver (however, only models using [...] Texas Instruments 3025 [...] are
supported)'

It may be that the TI-3026 is close enough to the 3025 and that you just 
have a misconfiguration problem.  You may want to check on the Xperts list 
to confirm this.  Your fall-back option would be to return to XFree86 
3.3.6 which states that it does support the 968 with no caveat about the 
RAMDAC.

so can i run my 3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM] rev 0 (rev 0) with RAMDAC TI 
3026-175 with the s3 driver under xfree4.2.0???

ans if so how

thanks for the help
Thomas Geenen
(ps i am not sure about the ramdac how can i check this)


_______________________________________________
Xpert mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Reply via email to