Tiago Vignatti wrote: > Yan Seiner wrote: >> I have a very, very old laptop - 1995 vintage - that I want to >> repurpose for a net-terminal. It has a Chips and Technologies 65545 >> video chipset. This works with X as I've run it in the past with >> both freeBSD and an older version of linux (something with a 2.4 >> kernel and an old version of xfree.) I decided to upgrade this to a >> current version to get some net tools. Now I can't get X to >> recognize the C&T chipset. >> >> I am using xorg 7.4, with the chips driver. X fails with: >> >> (II) Primary Device is: ISA >> (EE) No devices detected >> >> Unfortunately I don't have pcmcia working either so I can't copy and >> paste quite yet. >> >> I suspect that the driver cannot auto-probe the ISA bus and it's >> looking for some sort of IRQ or base address. But how do I go about >> finding this? I don't recall having to do anything special in the >> past, but who knows.... >> > > recently versions of the server don't support ISA anymore. > > Well, after some trial and error, I got vesa to work for X and framebuffer to work for text screens. (For some reason, X Frame buffer won't work, but as the hardware is 15 years old, it's not worth fixing.)
--Yan > -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ A day may come (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ when the courage of men fails, (_)\(_) ,>/'_ when we forsake our friends and break all (_)\(_) bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. It is not this day! This day we ride! _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg