Hello. The video card is a Diamond Stealth S3 Vision 868 with 2 MB RAM. X will start with the vesa driver but not the s3 driver. The system is a fresh Debian Etch running on an older Pentium 2 machine. Here is the log from a failed attempt: X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux shannon 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 Build Date: 04 September 2007 Before reporting problems, check <a href="http://wiki.x.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.x.org</a> to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Nov 9 17:17:46 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "ViewSonic PS775 Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "S3 Stealth Video Card" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to "/etc/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 1.0 X.Org XInput driver : 0.6 X.Org Server Extension : 0.3 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so (II) Module bitmap: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so (II) Module pcidata: vendor=" X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 (--) using VT number 7 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,7190 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7191 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:04:0: chip 8086,7110 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:04:1: chip 8086,7111 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:04:2: chip 8086,7112 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:04:3: chip 8086,7113 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 10b7,4500 card 10b7,4500 rev 30 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0c:0: chip 5333,8880 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0080 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:4:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (--) PCI:*(0:12:0) S3 Inc. 86c868 [Vision 868 VRAM] vers 0 rev 0, Mem @ 0x10000000/26, BIOS @ 0x000c0000/16 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xe4000000 from 0xe7ffffff to 0xe3ffffff (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe300007f (0x80) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xe4000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [2] -1 0 0x14020000 - 0x1402ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x13ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d07f (0x80) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d80f (0x10) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe300007f (0x80) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xe4000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [2] -1 0 0x14020000 - 0x1402ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x13ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d07f (0x80) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d80f (0x10) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x0fffffff (0xff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x0fffffff (0xff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe300007f (0x80) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe4000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [6] -1 0 0x14020000 - 0x1402ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0x10000000 - 0x13ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d07f (0x80) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d80f (0x10) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor=" X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 (II) LoadModule: "vbe" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libvbe.so (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 (II) LoadModule: "s3" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so (II) Module s3: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 0.4.1 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 (II) LoadModule: "kbd" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.1 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6 (II) S3: driver (version 0.4.1 for S3 chipset: 964-0, 964-1, 968, Trio32/64, Aurora64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX/GX (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0c:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found