From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain linux.ie)
Date: Fri 26 Oct 2001 - 18:13:20 IST
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:41:02PM +0100, inference15 at domain eircom.net wrote:
> Im trying to install Red Hat Linux on my old Pentium AST Advantage but am
> having trouble getting the necessary information about my video card. All I
> can find out is that it is an S3 Trio64V + (765), hardware version 068,with
> a display memory size of 1Mb and a PCI bus, and any emails I have sent to S3
> have come back advising me to email someone else, which has led to nowhere.
> Id like to install linux as soon as I can and would appreciate if someone
> knew where else |I could get the necessary information about my card.
> The vendor and model of the card - which I already have;
> The video chipset used on the card;
S3 Trio64V+ - which you already have
> The amount of video memory on the card;
1M - which you already have
> The type of clock chip on the card;
Should be happilu autoprobed for.
> And the type of RAMDAC on the card, if any.
Should be happilu autoprobed for.
I recently installed RH7.1 on a box with just such a card and it worked
automagically. Curiously SuSE 7.2 on the same hardware ran the graphical
install just fine but I couldn't get SaX2 (SuSE's graphical X configuration
tool) to generate a working configuration. I flung it and threw in another
card because that was the quickest thing for me. However, it's an old
chipset and should work quite happily - it uses the svga driver AFAIR.
Niall
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