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Re: Diamond Stealth 64 problem

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From: Hugo HAAS
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:00
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Michael K. Ganley (mikegan@world.std.com) wrote:
: koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig) wrote:

: >In <31122CCD.2800F1A3@muscat.co.uk> Tom Mortimer <tom@muscat.co.uk> writes:

: >> I'm trying to get XFree86 to run on with a Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM
: >> (Trio64) PCI card, on a Red Hat 2.0 system. I can get the S3 server
: >> to run ok, but after a few seconds the whole system crashes (hard
: >> disk light permanently on, no response to CTRL-ALT-DEL...)

: >please show the server output.  which CPU are you using ?

: >I'd say you have some hardware problems. either the card or your main board
: >is broken or there are some timing problems (e.g. bad PCI bus settings in 
: >the BIOS config ?).


: It is probably an unsupported chipset for current S3 server.  The 2MB
: DRAM card may have the 86C765 chip.....you may need the new
: XFree86 3.1.2B stuff.  ( Same goes for the 1MB DRAM )  Some work
: becasue they use the supported 86C764x chipset...newer cards use the
: 86C765.

: -MG

Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got the same problem.

Does anyone have a solution ?

Thank you.

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From: haash8@cti.ecp.fr (Hugo HAAS)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 64 problem
Date: 1996/02/23
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