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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Problems running XS3-0.3 on various S3 cards
Message-ID: <hastyCBHF68.42s@netcom.com>
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 07:51:44 GMT
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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
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