----- Original Message -----
From: Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Trio S3
> At 10:27 AM 20/03/2000 , Sharukh Pavri wrote:
> >Add the following line after the line for Videoram in your XF86Config
file
> >("Device" section.):
> >ChipId 0x8a10
>
> I checked with the computer in college - an IBM 300GL, if anybody is
> familiar with it.
>
> The startx script gives the following error:
> Unknown chipset ID 0x8904 rev 1
> linear FB @ 0xf8000000
>
> It seems that the chip_id is being autodetected, but the S3 server does
not
> know how to deal with this chipset.
This is a little deep water for me but I get a line in the startx messages
saying using chip ID xxxx instead of chip ID yyyy or something similar. and
my S3 card works with this line added and no other options need to be
passed.
Sharukh.
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