I'm trying to get XFree86 V4 working on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5166MMX w/integrated S3 Trio64V4 on SuSE Linux 7.3. Has anybody done this before? 1) I have installed SuSE Linux 7.3 on this machine from scratch. During installation SuSE Linux 7.3 automatically configured the system for XFree86 V3. I assume this happened because a supported video adapter could not be detected (configuration indicates unknown). 2) Using XFree86 V3 I immediatly had some intermittent video problems with SVGA (garbled screen, white screen, black screen, black screen with big black/white striped cursor, etc). After playing around with the wideo settings and setting the resolution as low as 640x480 everything worked o.k. I don't remember, but at the same time I probably selected the s3_svga driver (not sure which one was there before). 3) Now I tried to setup the XFree86 V4 server using SAX2 (a configuration utility that comes with SuSE Linux). All I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner and my screen hangs. I cannot get back to the configuration utility nor can I restart the X server using <ctrl><backspace>. I have to reboot the system from a telnet/ssh client. Does anybody know about a working driver for my configuration or does anybody knoe how to setup correctly the whole thing with the hardware configuration mentioned above? So far I've heard different things. Someone told me that the integrated S3 Trio64V2 is not supported by XFree86 V4. Someone else told me that the chip returns a wrong memory size and therefore the half of the memory will be overwritten (if so, how can I solve this?) and, as a result, even with XFree86 V3 I will not be able to get higher than 320x240 without problems. Another guy told me he has written a corrected driver for another system using the same integrated chip. He told me a lot of things, like chipset 764, RAMDAC, clockchip, bpp (32, which actually should be wrong), etc. Things I never heard in my 30 years IT career and simply didn't understand. He even sent me the source code, but it didn't solve my problem. No luck whith his s3_spec driver, too. No luck at SuSE. Since my computer is not listed under their supported system configurations they will not provide help. The best thing to do is probably to buy a supported video adapter. But after all, I got so much interested in the subject that I would like to understand the whole thing and try to get it solved. Thanks in advance for any hint! Peter N.B. I'm really a newbie. 10 years ago I administered some Unix boxes. Since than I had nothing to do with any *n*x OS. Now I'm involved in a appliance server project and got kicked in again. The project has a lot to due with hardware and compatibility, another reason for why I will understand and learn more about this issues.
