On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Tothwolf wrote: > I have a pair of Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM PCI (aka Stealth 64 Video) boards > that I am attempting to get working with the 4.2.0 S3 driver. These cards > use a S3 968 chipset and an IBM RGB 526 ramdac. > > The current S3 driver in 4.2.0 appears to lack some support for the RGB > 526, but does have support for the 524. The S3 driver in 3.3.6 supports > the 526, but it appears to simply treat the 526 as if it were a 524. The > server status messages from 3.3.6 also incorrectly show the 526 as a 524: > > (--) S3: Detected an IBM RGB524 ramdac rev. c0 > (--) S3: Ramdac type: ibm_rgb524 > > Is anyone familiar enough with the S3 driver to be able to give me some > pointers as to what I'll need to do in order to get the 526 working? I > tried simply adding the 526 to the list of supported ramdacs, but that got > me little more than a dead screen, requiring a reboot.
The XFree86 developer FTP site (which appears to be unavailable at the moment) has the register specs for the RGB 526, including about 3 pages describing the differences from the 524. [EMAIL PROTECTED] may be able to give you access to this document. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
