From: Lutz Oberst <ggi-devel@runner.swb.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:33:52 +0200

Re: Problems with a S3 Card

Am Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 04:07:04PM -0700, schrieb Jon M. Taylor

Hello,

> 	The existing Trio64V+ driver should be able to support plain
> Trio64 with a few tweaks.  Why don't you try it and tell me what happens? 

When I insmod the module ggidrv.o the screen "crashes". You can't
recoginze any character and the screen is frozen. You see no reaction
when you hit a key. But the system is stable. I can cleanly type reboot
and it reboots as it should. The errors reported in the syslog are:

----------------
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: S3 86c765 (Trio64) chipset driver rev \
$Revision: 1.9 $
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: 86c765.c:302: default values: ff 01 f1 1b \
ff ff ff 80 ff
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: VGA clock driver rev $Revision: 1.6 $,\
common code:$Revision: 1.11 $
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: generic.c:282: S3 accel driver loaded
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: fixed.inc:143: internal error. Please
\ report to Steffen Seeger <seeger@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>. Thank you!
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: error: failed to register as display 0
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: VGA clock driver unloaded
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner kernel: S3 86c765 (Trio64) chipset driver rev
\ $Revision: 1.9 $ removed.
Jul  7 13:24:34 runner insmod: modules/ggidrv.o: init_module: Das Gerdt\
oder die Ressource ist belegt
-------------------------

My .config:

--------------
MON_CLASS=multisync
MON_TYPE=Iiyama-MT-9017T

CHIP_CLASS=S3
CHIP_TYPE=86c765

GRAPH_CLASS=S3
GRAPH_TYPE=generic

CLK_CLASS=prog
CLK_TYPE=s3idac

DAC_CLASS=S3
DAC_TYPE=trio64

KERNEL_CLASS=linux
KERNEL_TYPE=i386

PROJECT         = ggi
MAJOR_RELEASE   = 0
MINOR_RELEASE   = 0
PATCH_LEVEL     = 9
-----------------

> Note that if you are using Degas (0.1.0), nothing but VGA will work.  If
> you want to play with KGI, either use Dali (0.0.9) or kgicon (available
> from my web page and soon to be in CVS as well).
I'm using dali-final

> > Can anybody explain me my errors ?
> 	See above.
Thanks.

> Jon
Bye, Lutz
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