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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA651 ; Sat, 06 Feb 93 16:01:16 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsk!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: Help installing XFree86 Organization: AT&T Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 15:01:30 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb5.150130.28567@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1993Feb4.231751.18383@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1ktg2uINN5dt@life.ai.mit.edu> Lines: 33 In article <1ktg2uINN5dt@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > > In article <1993Feb4.231751.18383@a.cs.okstate.edu> > yeoy@a.cs.okstate.edu (YEO YEK CHONG) writes: > > > > XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System > > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) > > Configured drivers: > > VGA256 (256 colour SVGA): > > et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900 > > Trident chipset version: 0x03 > > Trident driver only supports TVGA8900C > > > > *** None of the configured devices was detected.*** > > Can you read? XFree86 clearly does not support your chipset (yet). > > -- > \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu > /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. > Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride! Replace "yet" with "likely not ever". 0x03 is a TVGA8900B. It's most likely not ever going to be supported, as there is a register that is read-only on the B board, and read-write on the C board. And no one has figured out how to get the driver to work without writing to that register. -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "In and around the lake, the mountains come out of the sky. They stand there." -- Yes, Roundabout