Re: Old Video Card Problem in RH9

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

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Mike A. Harris wrote:
| On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Thomas Dodd wrote:
|
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|>Mike, I';m trying to help this guy.
|>He got RHL-9, trying to get a  S3, 864 card going. From lspci:
|>00:0b.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: S3 Inc. 86c864 [Vision 864
|>DRAM] vers 0
|>	Flags: medium devsel
|>	Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
|>	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
|>
|>
|>Notice the multiple detections of the card.
|>Any hints?
|
|
| Looks like a driver or X server bug.  Unfortunately, such ancient
| hardware isn't a priority in the bug-queue realm of things
| though, so reporting it in our bugzilla wouldn't really help the
| problem anytime soon.  Reporting it in XFree86 bugzilla might,
| but only if anyone upstream even cares about the driver nowadays.
| About all I can realistically do, is take the PCI ID number and
| force that ID to map to the 'vesa' driver.

He tried telling the config tool to use the vesa driver.
It created entries for every "detected" card. Then acted like the vesa
driver wouldn't work.

Form the log:
| (II) Primary Device is:
| (WW) VESA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:11:0)
| found

For all the BusIDs

| (WW) VESA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:65:26:0)
| found
| (EE) No devices detected.


|>I suggest he join this list, but you can find the thread in the
|>archives for redhat-install-list, same subject line.
|
|
| Hehe.  I'm too busy on my own issues/priorities to go searching
| through mailing list archives to find random emails in order to
| help someone else.  ;o)

He's on the redhat-install list, trying to get help. You nolonger read
that list. I though giving you a pointer to the information would be
better than reposting all the info.

Yes he should join this list. Convincing him is another issue. I don't
know if he has paid for any support, but he claimed the card was listed
as supported.

| Not that I don't want to help, just that it isn't reasonable to
| ask a volunteer to help, and expect them to go searching for the
| details on a search engine or poking through mailing list
Thread starts here
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/thread.html#00068

Usefull messages
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/msg00068.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/msg00115.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/msg00129.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/msg00162.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/msg00179.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-February/msg00207.html

| archives or whatnot.  Seriously though, if someone wants my help,
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