Re: Old Video Card Problem in RH9

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

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Mike A. Harris wrote:
| On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Thomas Dodd wrote:
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|>| Looks like a problem with the PCI code.  there is a fix, but it is
|>| awaiting feedback from the original poster.  perhaps you can verify it.
|>
|>So it appears to be a S3 problem.
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| Not sure what you mean by "S3" problem.  S3 the company?  The
| driver?  The video card?

The card/chip. Other PCI cards tested on the sme system (according to
the bug report at xfree86.org) behave differently.

| If this is happening both with the native driver and with the
| vesa driver, I'm inclined to glare at the PCI code and wave a
| finger back and forth personally.

There is no native driver for this chip, the S3 964.

|>If I build the whole thing, what would I need to send bbb, to get the
|>change? I expect just the vesa driver, but not at all sure.
|
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| I don't know what "what would I need to send bbb" means in
| English.  Specifically the "bbb" part.

bbb it,net.au, the guy that was asking for help on redhat-install-list.


|>One other question, any know/suspected problems with compilers.
|>He's on RHL9, probably up to date on patches, but my box is a
|>hodge-podge of RHL9, FC1, 2.6 kernels, and other stuff.
|>
|>gcc-3.2.2-5, glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7
|>
|>Any other packages I should check for version issues?
|
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| Nope.  It is almost definitley an XFree86 issue.  I would bet
| money on it.  It just isn't a particularly interesting or mission

So I can apply the patch from xfree86.org to the SRPM from RHL9 on my
system and send him the new vesa driver and it should work?

| critical high-priority issue per se.  The simple thing to do is
| buy a Radeon for $30 on Ebay or pricewatch.com.  Saves hours and

I didn't think anybody mad a PCI version of the Radeon. All I've seen is
AGP.

	-Thomas
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