On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:14:28 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
I've just replaced a faulty graphics card in the dualboot machine at home, and was wondering how to let the linux part know it has an S3 Trio64V rather than a Whatever-it-was? I ran XF86Config from a commandine, but got all the header and footers for each section in XF86Config come up with "command not found".
Interesting. Which distro? Have you tried any other X config tools - there is also XF86Setup, Xconfigurator (Redhat) anXious (debian).
A search on google showed the driver "accel" can be used with this card....I'm not sure how to activate this driver, or if I can just edit XF86Config by hand. Or how to find if debian has the driver "accel". Or anything much really. Ta, Jenny.
Which debian? Potato? For potato I beleive there is a version of the X server for the S3 chipset (which has many varients) and you would need to installed that - it is probably called xserver-s3
If you are prepared to face the possibility that X may refuser to work and that you'd have to come back for more help, I would install this new package (xserver-s3) and say yes when it asks you if you want to make it the default.
If that doesn't do the trick, you could try the other X config tools or post your XF86Config for suggestions as to what to edit.
Steve.