On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Thomas Dodd wrote: >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. >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) 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 archives or whatnot. Seriously though, if someone wants my help, they have to come to me either in IRC, or on a public mailing list (Not via direct email of course, as I generally wont respond to direct email queries/please for help). If I have the time, and have pointers or suggestions, I generally try to help out people asynchronously on mailing lists such as this one as time permits, or at least to advise or steer people in the right direction. Just imagine what would happen if people widely accepted the idea that they could just tell me to go search google and find their problem, and then get me to do so and help them. ;o) I wouldn't do that for $50 an hour. ;o) Now, if someone dropped by my place on the weekend with video card in hand and did my dishes so I don't have to use paper plates, then I suppose I could fire up gdb on the s3 driver and poke around a bit. ;o) /me runs -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
