On 24-Nov-2008 KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
It is likely to be able to refer to this patch with ibmnws and prep.
However, s3_drv.o did not support 'Vision 864' though I tried the
support
with s3 on my prep. I am looking at the source-code of old X now.
My prep machine attached 'S3 Vision 864' on main-board.
If the product of other S3 is attached(ex. Trio64), I might prepare
Xserver
for that. Does prep have VGA other than Vision 864?
Good work on getting it running. Thats awesome.
My 7248 has an 864:
vga0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: S3 86C864-1 ("Vision864") (rev. 0x00)
It looks like a 7249-860 (the little laptop) has a different card,
but I don't
own one of those:
vga0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: S3 Aurora64V+ (rev. 0x00)
Having said that, I believe that the S3 driver in xorg and all
xfrees after
3.3.6 (ie, the whole 4.x series) is broken. I have a few i386
machines around
here with S3 cards, and while X works on them, it has all kinds of
bad graphics
glitches, and other wierd issues. I used to use S3 cards with 3.3.6
with no
issues, so I think it was broken in the big driver-rewrite that
occurred in the
4.0 X.
Additionally, other cards I typically see in prep machines:
Weitek P9100 (VGA display) at pci0 dev 14 function 0 not configured