On Thursday 13 April 2006 15:23, David Goodenough wrote: > I realise that there are some problems with the new modular xorg in > unstable at the moment, but I have a small dilema which seems to be > different from the ones already discussed on this forum. > > I have a sacrificial machine which I upgrade each morning to the latest > level on unstable. It is a very old machine (and old IBM 750-P90 but with > an Evergreen 400MHz go faster processor in it. It is slow, but does the > job. > > It has an S3 86C864 chip for driver the screen, which was handled by > the old S3 driver back in XFree 3.x days. Up until this most recent > version of xorg I have been able to use the old 3.x driver and as long > as I configured it in XF86Config I was OK. > > With this latest set of upgrades the old driver was removed, and there > are references to xserver-xorg-video-s3 as a package, which is supposed > to provide support for old s3 chips, hopefully including mine. > > But the xserver-xorg-video-s3 package only seems to include the > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-s3 directory and its changelog and > a copyright. No driver. > > According to packages.debian.org the actual drivers are in xserver-xorg, > but that is only a tiny little package with no video drivers. But that > list is out of date (April 5) so I guess it may be that the packages may > have been reocrganised. One clue to this is that it lists the files as > being in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules where actually the drivers are now in > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. > > So does anyone know what has happened to the S3 driver, whether it > is supposed to be there, and if so whether there is a special package > I need to install to find it. > > Regards > > David One further piece of information.
apt-file and dpkg differ about what files are present in xserver-xorg. apt-file says that s3_drv.so is present in that file, and dpkg -c can not find it, and dpkg -S can not find the file. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
