As you will note, the original date of this report is now several months
past. I had to have something that would work, and finally I pulled the S3
card and put in a Matrox II which is working properly with Alpha etch.
I can put the S3 back in and get the lspci output for you, but it will be a
Not sure why bugreport omitted these, but they are attached.
xorg.conf
Description: Binary data
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12)
Current Operating System:
As noted before, lspci -v returns the BIOS address for the S3 Trio
as 09c10 [disabled]
However, setpci -s 01:09.0 ROM_ADDRESS returns 8080
I do not know why this contradiction occurs. I decided to try setting
the BIOS address register to match the address reported by lspci (and
by the S3
On suggestions received elsewhere, I tried this with Option noaccel
set, but it made no difference. The results, and the meaningless pixel
pattern on the screen, remained the same.
On another suggestion, I tried the vesa driver, which probably should
work with this card as well. That driver
As suggested in earlier response, I first did a full update of the
Debian etch level system. A number of major components were replaced,
but none were in the x11 area. The problem persisted as reported.
This morning I installed xserver-xorg-video-s3 from lenny/testing by
using aptitude to include
The Alpha BIOS itself doesn't enable or disable anything, so I'm not
sure what I could do there. I'm not really sure what [disabled] means
in the lspci output anyway. It also reports that the SCSI controller
BIOS is disabled, but that is working fine.
I have kept Etch up to date, but only with
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