From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 6 08:58:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA15202 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 08:58:13 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA15196 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 08:58:12 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA05633; Mon, 6 Feb 95 09:52:16 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502061652.AA05633@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: XF86config configuration problem on a DEC VENTURIS 4100 To: hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu (Ken Hughes) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 9:52:15 MST Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9502061551.AA07614@napa.eng.uop.edu> from "Ken Hughes" at Feb 6, 95 07:51:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi I am very worried that my graphics card is going to cause problems. > > > > It is an S3 TRIO 32/64 - I believe ! > > > > probe detects an S3 graphics adapter > > mmio_928, s3_generic > > > > but complains about unknown S3 chipset > > chip_id = 0xe1 > > > > can anyone help me ? > > The problem is the XFree86-3.1 S3 server does not support the S3 Trio > chipset; this should be corrected in the 3.1.1 release. In the meantime, > you can use the SVGA server to make the card work. I think lying about the "Chipset" to the S3 server may also work; you will probably need a couple other options to disable some advanced features as well. The "Chipset" option should be covered in the man page. I could be wrong; if so, wait for 3.1.1 and use SVGA meanwhile. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.