----- Original Message -----
From: "ed tharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 19:12, ed tharp wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:17, Cody Harris wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "ed tharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:58 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 09:50, Haywiremac wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:02:37 -0300
> > > > > "Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I ran mcc from console and went to display configuration, but my
card
> > > > > > isn't listed there. I wants Trio64 (so it defaults to), but that
> > > > > > doesn't work.
> > > > >
> > > > > your best bet may be to upgrade to the latest XFree, but I've
never been
> > > > > through that process. Check xfree.org for more details, to see if
they
> > > > > may now support your card.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Try frame buffer (svga) until you get X running
> > >
> > > X runs, but only in 8 bit. And where's this frame buffer thang?
> > you are probibly using it, as that is the default driver that gets you 8
> > bit, and if you have a color "lilo splash screen, you are using frame
> > buffer then. If you have 8 bit color at least. I just realized, is this
> > "shared video mem? are you correctly passing the amount of available
> > system ram to the Kernel at boot? (lilo append should have a "mem=xxxM"
> > where xxx equals amount of system memory installed minus amount of
> > shared video mem?)
> >
> >
> > and what does (as root, in a text console, without the quotes "lspci"
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp 440BX/ZX/DZ - 8244BX/ZX/DX Host brider (AGP
disabled) (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Inel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB// PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
0:07.1 EID interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bride: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
00:08.0 VGA compatable controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]
00:0a:0 Ethernet Controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DEC chip 21140
[FasterNet] (rev 20)
Coppied that by hand...
> > and "cat /proc/pci" say?
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP
disabled) (rev 3).
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 1).
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffaf].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 0).
IRQ 9.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 0).
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xfbffffff].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140
[FasterNet] (rev 32).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec7f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebff000 [0xfebfffff].
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