Re: [newbie] X 4.0.1 S3 Trio3D works!

2000-07-23 Thread Victor Richardson
Now that I've had a decent night's sleep (up at 5am, installed X at 1 am next morning), there are few things that I should have added. 1) Read and answer all the questions yes or no depending if you already have customizations to your X environment (I didn't), it will save so much post install

[newbie] X and S3 Trio3D

2000-06-25 Thread Victor Richardson
I still am having trouble getting my S3 Trio3D to work. When "startx" runs using the S3Virge driver(as Xf86Free.org suggests) the error message shows that everything goes fine from the keyboard through the FontPath, until; XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for

Re: [newbie] X and S3 Trio3D

2000-06-25 Thread Paul
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Victor Richardson wrote: I still am having trouble getting my S3 Trio3D to work. When "startx" runs using the S3Virge driver(as Xf86Free.org suggests) the What version of Mandrake are you using? I had an S3 card too, once, and with RH6 (sorry guys) I could not get it to

Re: [newbie] X and S3 Trio3D

2000-06-25 Thread Victor Richardson
I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (X ver. 3.3.6). I agree that the PCI: unknown might the root of the problem. I'd guess that the video card is not working or that it is a newer version, but I bought the server new in November from IBM and I'd think that the latest drivers in 3.3.6 would include it. I'm

Re: [newbie] X and S3 Trio3D

2000-06-25 Thread Dennis Myers
Victor Richardson wrote: I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (X ver. 3.3.6). I agree that the PCI: unknown might the root of the problem. I'd guess that the video card is not working or that it is a newer version, but I bought the server new in November from IBM and I'd think that the latest drivers

Re: [newbie] X and S3 Trio3D

2000-06-25 Thread Victor Richardson
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try tonight, I'm desperate. Victor Dennis Myers wrote: Victor Richardson wrote: I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (X ver. 3.3.6). I agree that the PCI: unknown might the root of the problem. I'd guess that the video card is not working or that it is a newer

Re: [newbie] X and S3 Trio3D

2000-06-25 Thread Paul
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Victor Richardson wrote: I'm thinking on trying X 4.0 today to see if it will help, but it is probably going to turn out to be a hardware problem. And will probably try to run it in Frame Buffer mode as IBM's site suggest, although I'm not sure how primitive the graphics