Re: S3 video card versus RH 8

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:53:37AM -0500, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote:
> [Resend: I haven't seen this message in the digest yet...]
> 
>    My old Dell 400 came with an S3 trio64V2 video card,
> which works on RH 7.3, and continues to work all the way 
> through the X-based install process, but fails on first boot.
>  The diagnosis is "(EE) No devices detected."
> 
>   Anyone seen this symptom? We have about 20 of these machines
> in our lab, and I'd like to reccomend running RH 8 on them.
> 
> --dave
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Did you try a text-mode install?  (At the boot: prompt, enter "linux
text".)  The GUI support in the install is usually less than the
full-blown XFree86.  My perusal of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards indicates
it's still supported, but apparently in a different way.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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