Configuring Xfree86

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

>>>>> "aparna" == aparna nair <aparnanair@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    aparna> Hi all, I am trying to install Linux on IBM 300GL. The
    aparna> installation went off well...except for the display
    aparna> adapter configuration. Looked up the s3 site for relevant
    aparna> driver but found none.The machine has the S3 Trio3D AGP
    aparna> card.  Can you pls help!!

	I guess you will have to wait before S3 writes a driver for
it. :(  The card doesnt seem to work yet.

	As a general note, before you configure X make sure you have
turned off Cacheable Video BIOS and VGA pallette snooping and similar
things in your BIOS.  Having them on causes problems and typically if
one runs X with this the screen blanks out but the keyboard is not
locked (the console is still up - only the video card has gone for a
toss) and should even respond to a Ctl+Alt+Del and do a reboot.  I've
seen this problem personally and struggled for long with some cards
when I forgot to ensure this.

prabhu
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