ProSavage onboard

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 23:51:17 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:21:27PM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> S3 ProSavage onboard VGA using the km133 driver. 
> This driver appears to probe the monitor incorrectly, causing the
> monitor to switch off (orange light), I tried using the vesa drivers as
> a substitute but the whole system becomes unstable, I had the same
> experience with RH9 ( Strange!;-/ )
> In mandrake9.2 the driver has no issues.
> Where can I get source code for the driver, I will try and compile my
> own.

You might want to try Mandrake with the Linux kernel image - if that fails
you have good pointers probably to a bios bug with some segment registers

> Here are the chip-set specs
> north bridge
> S3 Graphics VIA
> P4M266A
> 0339CE
> 2IA0423061
> 
> The south bridge
> VT8235
> 0337CD
> 23A3984971

You might also want to try 

	Option "UseBIOS" "no"

in XF86Config chipset section






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