Re: Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-22 Thread Don Jackson (AE5K)
Kent and others, Problem Solved! It took two things to manually change in the XF86Config-4 file... (1) BusID "PCI:0:8:0" was added right after driver "s3" in "Device" section referring to the video card. This was an absolute MUST in my system. (2) Changed the default depth from 24 to 8.

Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-21 Thread Kent West
Don Jackson (AE5K) wrote: On 21 Jun 2004 at 18:27, Kent West wrote: Either leave the BusID setting blank (for an X86 machine with only one video controller), or make sure it matches the output of lspci (converting the hex to decimal). Thanks Kent for the reply... there was no BusID given

Re: Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-21 Thread Don Jackson (AE5K)
On 21 Jun 2004 at 18:27, Kent West wrote: > Either leave the BusID setting blank (for an X86 machine with only one > video controller), or make sure it matches the output of lspci > (converting the hex to decimal). Thanks Kent for the reply... there was no BusID given in the XF86Config-4 file

Re: Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-21 Thread Don Jackson (AE5K)
On 21 Jun 2004 at 16:34, Rthoreau wrote: > Did you turn off frame buffering, I have an old Nvidia card that everytime I > use frame buffering it will crash with a similar message, even if the device > section is correct. Also look at the obvious Device section see if your > BusID is correct.

Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-21 Thread Kent West
Don Jackson (AE5K) wrote: Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB memory. Motherboard is FIC 503VA+, CPU is K6-2. It appears it should be using the s3_drv.o driver which is present at /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.o Here are the last few lines of that log: (WW) s3

Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-21 Thread Rthoreau
> "Don Jackson (AE5K)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > I used the Debian Installer TC1 ... it installs, but gdm fails. I > looked at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, cannot determine what my problem > is. > > Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB > memory. Motherboard is FIC 503

XFree86 problem with S3 video card

2004-06-21 Thread Don Jackson (AE5K)
I used the Debian Installer TC1 ... it installs, but gdm fails. I looked at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, cannot determine what my problem is. Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB memory. Motherboard is FIC 503VA+, CPU is K6-2. It appears it should be using the s3_drv.o