[ale] XF86Config help requested
John M. Mills
jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu
Wed Sep 10 14:25:50 EDT 1997
Still sorting out a new box, I am having trouble getting the "Device"
section of XF86Config correct for my new video card.
The card is a "Path 411" 'Trio 64,' and the chip is an 86C765. XF86_S3
should support this chip, but I keep getting refusals to match the card's
chipset. I tried several variants on:
Chipset "86C765", Chipset "S3", ...,
but apparently the server extracts a text string it can't recognize as a
proper chipset, and exits. Also, the card has some type of ramdac, but I
can't identify the type. How can I get this information into the card
definition, or do I need to? This is XFree-3.2, straight off the RedHat
4.2 cdrom.
I am using something like the following:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Path 411"
VendorName "Path"
BoardName "Trio64"
Chipset "86C765"
VideoRam 2048
EndSection
John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer -- john.m.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0834
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