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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4320 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2957 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Problems running XS3-0.3 on various S3 cards Message-ID: <hastyCBHF68.42s@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <244rr2$6jv@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 07:51:44 GMT Lines: 44 In article <244rr2$6jv@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) writes: >I'm having problems getting XS3 running on a couple of S3 based cards that I >currently have on loan. Unfortunately, I don't have much documentation about >either card. I do know that both are S3 911 based -- one is a GainTEC GXA911 >and other other is something called a "WA911". Both cards are ISA. > >The symptoms are identical for both. I type "startx -- XS3 >& errs"; the >screen flickers and then goes blank, and then nothing... > >The system (NetBSD 0.8 with NetBSD-current kernel) is still running - I can >rlogin across the network, but anything I type on the keyboard is ignored >(including <ctrl-alt-backspace> and <ctrl-alt-delete>). > >When I look in the errs file I see the following > >| S3 1.0 / X Windows System >| (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) >| >| S3 >| We are about to initialize the S3 >| S3 chipset is a 911 >| 0 63 >| 1 4f >| 2 52 >| 3 98 >| ... XS3 does not work with NetBSD current. The good folks changed the kernel enough. I am sure that they had good reasons to change things a bit. It is hard for me to keep upgrading or maintaining code for all the variants of 386bsd. I don't have the bandwith nor a great movitation to do the job. Funny, how a small Unix group can get so fragmented like the rest of the Unix community. We are mirroring the market too closely. XS3 for 386bsd works with NetBSD-0.8, 386bsd-0.1, the 386bsd + patchkit (provided that you include pccons.c) Good nite, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming