On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Rolf Gerrits wrote: > I have a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM 3240 ( TI RAMDAC ) video card and HAVE > the same problem. XFree86 2.4.x fails at the RAMDAC probe and exits. > > I now use vesa in stead of the S3 driver. Now I am stuck with 1024x768 > / 16bpp in stead of 1152x864 /16bpp ! I could go back to XFree86 3.3.6 > .... that one worked ( with SVGA ) ... no problems at all. > > I don't want to go back to 3.3.6 ... there must be another solution. I > wondered if you ever found a solution ( exept: buy an other card .. ) ?
I guess support for your ramdac isn't included in 4.x. There seems to be a growing number of folks with these issues, which I've kinda been expecting. Its not likely folks with these older S3 boards are going to upgrade XFree86 very fast, but I expect the numbers to grow as the upgrade cycle progresses... Which ramdac does your board use? TI had several. I'm kinda annoyed about the S3 968 with an IBM RGB 526 not being supported, as XFree86 3.3.6 reports a 526 as a 524 during startup, which *is* supported by 4.x. What does it take to get programming docs for all these chips? IBM would provide docs for their DACs if they still had them (I've been in touch with them)... -Toth _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
