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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>
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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
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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.

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