Very Computer

I have tried to run both XF86_SVGA and XF86_S3 with it. I have no luck.
I tried to have it tell me clocks but it only gives 2-3 clocks and
README says that for this I might want to ask for help from the
newsgroup. Superprobe says:

First videp: Super-VGA
    chipset: S3 (unknown chip set)
       signature data: c0 (please report)
    mem:  2k
    RAMDAC: AT&T 20c492 15/16/18-bit DAC with gamma correction
                      (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode.))

I mostly have tried to get XF86_SVGA to run. I tried various chipsets
 and it has never come up. (Once I barely got something up, but it was
unreadable.)

Any and all hints welcome about how i might get X on this fancy machine.
Is this supported in any server?

Quote:>I have a gateway 2000 p5-90 with at
>PCI STB 864 video card. I am running LINUX 1.1.59 on it. I have used
>linux for a long time on many machines and can always get X11 running on
>it, but this new machine has me stumped.

>I have tried to run both XF86_SVGA and XF86_S3 with it. I have no luck.
>I tried to have it tell me clocks but it only gives 2-3 clocks and
>README says that for this I might want to ask for help from the
>newsgroup. Superprobe says:

>First videp: Super-VGA
>    chipset: S3 (unknown chip set)
>       signature data: c0 (please report)
<deleted>
>Any and all hints welcome about how i might get X on this fancy machine.
>Is this supported in any server?

The chip id "0xc0" is for an S3 864 which is supported on XFree86-3.1

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        Amancio

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Quote:>> It looks like you dont have X11R6 's XF86_S3

>> The chip id "0xc0" is for an S3 864 which is supported on XFree86-3.1

>>         Have fun,
>>         Amancio
>he doesn't need XF3.1, I'm running this with XF2.1 just ifne, though
>at only 640x480 :( there exists a version of XF2.1's XF86_S3 for the
>864 chipset...it's available at 199.75.44.22 for anon ftp for those
>interested.

Don't use these XFree86 2.1* hacks for 864, use XFree86 3.1 if you really
want to use most/all features of your card and don't want to risk frying
your ramdac or S3 chip with higher pixel clocks

This ever was a bogus advice to use those servers and now that XFree86 3.1
IS available its plain stupid.

If you're not familar with S3 programming and XF86_S3 internas, please don't
post such advices in the news groups,

Harald
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Quote:>The patch that I posted for the S3 864 is correct provided that you
>have a supported RAMDAC and clock generator .
>>Don't use these XFree86 2.1* hacks for 864, use XFree86 3.1 if you really
>>want to use most/all features of your card and don't want to risk frying
>>your ramdac or S3 chip with higher pixel clocks
>Sorry to correct you, put programming an S3 864 as an S3 928 has
>nothing to do with the risk of frying a monitor at high pixel clocks rates
>unless the original code in XFree86 2.1 had a bug. Now, the rest about
>supporting higher depth colors, different caching algorithm, RAMDACs
>is great :)

Quote:>**Perhaps some users have a *real* need to use X11R5***

Harald
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Quote:>Just as a NOTE on this, some users MUST continue using X11R5 for a while.
>I'm running Slackware on a Server, and PC Xservers on 20 or so PCs.  That
>software doesn't yet support X11R6, although a beta is out.  If you want
>Linux to be a usefull OS, not everything can change overnight, and must
>allow for other software to catch up in a client/server environment.

Harald
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