> Ryan,
>
> The Trident card will not work in X, there is no X-server. However, Jay
> Estabrook is looking for volunteers to port the SVGA server to include more
> cards than the current Matrox Millenium support.
Hmm... Ok... It doesn't really matter which, the Trident or the
Diamond card that I get to work. The other one goes into a P100 running
NT.
>
> The Diamond Video 64 will work, I have the VRAM version (S3-968) installed
> and operating nicely in a Multia.
Its nice to know it is possible. :) Though, how well does the card
physically fit inside the case. In mine it just barely fits, butting up
pretty close to the back of the hard drive. Installing it was a bit of
trick. I had to remove the hard drive and floppy drive (man is that a
small 340mb drive) and then install the card, and put everything back,
pushing cables around and such. Were old versions of the card larger than
the newer ones, mine is about 1.5 years old.
>
> The trick to getting it to work is to compile and install a kernel *without*
> TGA support. Compiling both TGA and VGA support in the kernel does not work,
> since the TGA adapter is detected at kernel boot as the default adapter (this
> is your current problem).
Hmm... Ok, that is one thing I need to do. But the problem I am
having is that I can not even get the UDB to boot with the Diamond Card.
The Diamond card never shows anything on the moniter on boot up. Yet, the
TGA adaptor on the other hand shows a normal boot up to the SRM console,
then a memory check, and then it starts kicking out tons of hex code and
register values and says that there was an unexpected hardware vector or
something like that. So I never even get to boot MILO, let alone linux
with the Diamond card, I never get past the SRM. That is why I thought
there was something in terms of jumpers I need to do...
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