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Dileep Kumar

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Jan 29, 2002, 2:50:10 AM1/29/02
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Hello GNUheads,

I am trying to install XFree86 4.1.x from SID. My VGA card is a
S3 Trio 64 UV+ with 1MB V-Ram. I would like to know whether this
card is supported in 4.1.x. It was working fine with Xfree86 3.3.6.
I get a low resolution and half screen display on installing
xserver-xfree86.

With warm regards

MDK


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Elmar Fasel

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Jan 29, 2002, 2:59:19 AM1/29/02
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:50:10 +0100, Dileep Kumar wrote:

> I am trying to install XFree86 4.1.x from SID. My VGA card is a S3 Trio
> 64 UV+ with 1MB V-Ram. I would like to know whether this card is
> supported in 4.1.x. It was working fine with Xfree86 3.3.6. I get a low
> resolution and half screen display on installing xserver-xfree86.

See: http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status28.html#28
and: http://www.xfree.org/current/Status28.html#28

So it's supported in 4.2.0, not in 4.1.x.

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Elmar
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Dileep Kumar

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Jan 29, 2002, 3:50:53 AM1/29/02
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"Elmar Fasel" <Elmar...@web.de> wrote:

> So it's supported in 4.2.0, not in 4.1.x.

Thanks Elmar.

Regards

Dileep Kumar

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Jan 29, 2002, 11:08:21 PM1/29/02
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"Elmar Fasel" <Elmar...@web.de> wrote:

> See: http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status28.html#28
> and: http://www.xfree.org/current/Status28.html#28
> So it's supported in 4.2.0, not in 4.1.x.

Dear Elmar,

I have a doubt. I had installed Caldera as well as RHL 7.1
on my machine at different times. They also have Xfree86
version 4.x (not ver 4.2). I could configure my S3 Trio
SVGA card in those distros easily. But then why my debian
sid shows probs.

Yesterday I tried this ( as root)

# XFree86 -configure
# XFree86 -XF86config ~/XF86Config.new

# cp /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
# startx

My machine hung up and had to reboot (ctrl+alt+del worked)
Pls help me

Regards

Elmar Fasel

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Jan 30, 2002, 4:06:59 AM1/30/02
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:08:21 +0100, Dileep Kumar wrote:

>> See: http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status28.html#28 and:
>> http://www.xfree.org/current/Status28.html#28 So it's supported in
>> 4.2.0, not in 4.1.x.
>

> I have a doubt. I had installed Caldera as well as RHL 7.1 on my machine
> at different times. They also have Xfree86 version 4.x (not ver 4.2). I
> could configure my S3 Trio SVGA card in those distros easily. But then
> why my debian sid shows probs.

Sorry, don't know. I don't have this card and I don't know what the
problem is. I only looked at the xfree86 webpages.

Maybe Caldera and RH added device drivers for your card...

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Elmar
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