Re: X support for S3 86c764?

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From: Andrew Howell
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:00

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Nick Satterly (nicks@ozramp.ozramp.net.au) wrote:
: 
: Can anyone help me get XF86 to recognise my graphics card.
: It is a #9FX Vision 330 (PCI), with a S3 Trio64 86c764 chipset,
: and 2Mb DRAM. XF86Config only lists the #9 GXE.
: 
: I ran SuperProbe and got, "Chipset: S3 (chipset unknown)
:                                Signature data: el (please report)"
: 
: I've wasted a lot of time on this already--should I just give up and
: get a 86c864 or ET4000 instead?
: 
: Thanks for your help.

What version of XFree are you using? The S3 driver in 3.1.2 says it
supports the S3 Trio64 764 chip. In particular #9 GXE64 Trio64.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au 
Perth, Western Australia		      howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au

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