From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262791AbTJOLmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:42:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262792AbTJOLmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:42:05 -0400 Received: from smtp3.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.173]:26253 "EHLO smtp3.pp.htv.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262791AbTJOLmC (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:42:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1066218121.3f8d32897f51b@webmail.welho.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:42:01 +0300 From: tapiov@welho.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: tapiov@welho.com Subject: 2.6.0-test7 : S3 Virge (DX) driver, framebuffer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 207.83.32.85 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have an older PC, dating back to 1997, which has a graphic chip integrated on the mother board. The chip is (based on) S3 Virge DX2. I have been using a 2.4.22 kernel from Slackware 9.1 distribution, which has been able to use the framebuffer modes (especially mode vga=773) successfully. So I tried compiling the 2.6.0-test7 kernel and followed the advice given in the Framebuffer-HOWTO from TLDP (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html) as good as I was able to. I could not find all the items from the xconfig menus mentioned in that article (namely the "advanced low level drivers) so I assumed that the article was probably a bit outdated. I successfully turned on all framebuffer related switches, fonts and mode selection support. Then compiled and installed the new kernel. Now I found out that I wasn't able to use vga=773 anymore; only some lower-resolution modes were available at the lilo prompt. From the mentioned article I also read about a patch used earlier for S3 drivers, due to S3 chips non-compatibility with VESA 2.0 (them being 1.2 only?). Does such a patch exist still for 2.6.0? Or how could I get back to using better resolution? My apologizes, if this mail is completely off-topic. Please, let me know (email me directly) if you have a better source of information than this forum. Thanks, Tapio Valli