Does Xorg 6.9/7.0 support the old PCI graphic card S3 Trio64?
Ma Weimin
mwmb2 at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 11 19:51:54 PDT 2006
Hello Shawn,
How many video ram has your s3 card? If i assign a wrong number, will that
be problem? Could you send me a copy of your xorg.conf?
Weimin
>From: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com>
>Reply-To: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com>
>To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>, Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com>
>CC: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Re: Does Xorg 6.9/7.0 support the old PCI graphic card S3 Trio64?
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:43:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Should work, I have an onboard S3 Trio3D 64
>01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio 64 3D (rev 01)
>
>Xorg works ok with the driver, though I have to jiggle the xorg config to
get it to use the right refresh rate.
>
>Shawn.
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>To: Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com>
>Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:19:54 AM
>Subject: Re: Does Xorg 6.9/7.0 support the old PCI graphic card S3 Trio64?
>
>On 4/11/06, Ma Weimin <mwmb2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > my current system is: Mandriva 2006, Xorg 6.9.0 and integrated graphic
card
> > Intel i810. And it works perfect.
> >
> > I'm planning to use dual monitors with a sencond graphic cards, which
is a
> > very old PCI card S3 Trio64. It works on Widnows 98, so there's no
problem
> > with the card itself. I did exactly following the instructions of
xinerama.
> > But i failed to get Trio64 to work. Here are the informations.
>
>It should be supported by the s3 driver, depending on which DAC is
>used. the s3 driver doesn't support all the DACs that were used in
>conjuction with s3 chips of that period. specify "s3" for the driver.
>
>
> >
> > When I ran "X -configure", i got the this. However, I don't miss the
file
> > apm_drv.so.
> > failed load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/apm_drv.so
> > failed to load modules "apm" (loader failed, 7)
> >
> > When I ran "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new" anyway, such errors could be
> > found in "/var/log/X11.0.log" file.
> > (EE) Cannot shmat() high memory
> > (EE) shmget error: Invalid argument
> >
> > I have heard that Xorg 6.7 supports Trio64, but Xorg 6.9 not any more.
Is
> > that true? Does 7.0 support it? Is there any way to make Trio64 work
> > without downgrading Xorg to 6.7?
>
>the s3 driver hasn't changed between 6.7 and 6.9/7.0 so that driver
>should still work. If you are still having trouble, post your log and
>updated config.
>
>Alex
>
> >
> > Any Ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Weimin
> >
> >
> > Here is the created xorg.conf.new from X -configure.
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > Identifier "X.org Configured"
> > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> > Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Files"
> > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> > ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> > FontPath "unix/:-1"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> > Load "dbe"
> > Load "dri"
> > Load "extmod"
> > Load "glx"
> > Load "record"
> > Load "xtrap"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > Driver "kbd"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Mouse0"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > #DisplaySize 310 230 # mm
> > Identifier "Monitor0"
> > VendorName "GSM"
> > ModelName "FLATRON 774FT"
> > ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
> > HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
> > VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
> > Option "DPMS"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "Monitor1"
> > VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> > ModelName "Monitor Model"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > ### Available Driver options are:-
> > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> > ### [arg]: arg optional
> > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ColorKey" # <i>
> > #Option "CacheLines" # <i>
> > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
> > #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > Driver "i810"
> > VendorName "Intel Corporation"
> > BoardName "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated
Graphics Device"
> > BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > ### Available Driver options are:-
> > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> > ### [arg]: arg optional
> > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
> > Identifier "Card1"
> > Driver "vesa"
> > VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
> > BoardName "Unknown Board"
> > BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "Card0"
> > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 1
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 4
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 8
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 15
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 16
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 24
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen1"
> > Device "Card1"
> > Monitor "Monitor1"
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 1
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 4
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 8
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 15
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 16
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 24
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> >
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