Fedora Core 5 S3/S3Virge videocard support problems.

Crazy AMD K7 100megabit at mail.ru
Wed Apr 12 14:22:17 PDT 2006


Hello all Fedora Core 5 and Xorg users and developers.
I have upgraded to Fedora Core 5 and there are problems with S3
videocards. I have two questions.

1. How to make s3 trio 64(86C764X)videocard to work?

2. As I have read "man s3virge" it is supported.
How to make s3virge /DX(86C375) to work?

X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.9-22.18.bz155725.ELsmp i686Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686
Build Date: 06 March 2006
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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: Wed Apr 12 16:29:56 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x30000000 end: 0x300fffff size 0x30030000
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xe0000000 end: 0xe7ffffff size 0x30030000
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x30000000 end: 0x300fffff size 0x30030000
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xe0000000 end: 0xe7ffffff size 0x30030000
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0x30000000 end: 0x300fffff size 0x30030000
Requesting insufficient memory window!: start: 0xe0000000 end: 0xe7ffffff size 0x30030000
(EE) S3VIRGE(0): Cannot read V_BIOS

X are started, the screen is black, no mouse pointer or cursor, no
picture. Upper text output is made by running
startx >output.txt 2>&1
Changing of console CTRL+ALT+F1... dosn't work.
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE dosn't work, too.
Pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL makes computer to reboot in 1-2 minutes.
Please help me to make s3 and s3virge videocards to work.

#lspci
02:03.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01)
#uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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