On the machine I retired last week, I had an S3 card with 1MB. In order to get a decent combination of resolution and color, I upgraded the memory to 2MB. I don't know how much help that will be to you, but it helped me. On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:13:03PM -0600, Chelli & Filiep wrote: > I have a generic video card with a S3 chipset (yes it's authentic). The chip > is labeled > S3Trio64V2/DX (86c775). The card has 1M of memory and I'm trying to run Suse > Linux 6.1 (yes it's old but I didn't want to invest more $ before I could be > convinced > that the system will work). The Xfree86 system has a help file dated 1998 > (no clue > which version). When I start X86config I get a screen with a 720x800 > resolution so > the card works Ok. > I have tried and tried and tried some more but whatever I do the X system > will not > start with an S3 chip selected. I get errno 111 'can't connect'. After > having selected > SVGA and a generic chipset the system runs but with a 320x200 resolution so > that I > can't even see what the congratulations message says. Also KDM is useless > with this > kind of resolution. > Before the system was working with the SVGA settings (which I don't see to > be able > to undo) I tried to start KDM and got the message that the system had > detected a > Sigma designs RealMagic 64/GX chipset. I have not found this card or chipset > anywhere in the X86config program. > > Does someone have an idea how I can solve this without buying a new video > card? > > Thanks, > > Filiep > > btw I only have an internet connection on my w95 machine. > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > -- Daryl Lee Marietta, GA _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
