Re: New S3 videocard

Ian Eure (ieure@crosssound.narrows.com)
Mon, 31 May 1999 12:54:28 -0700

"Stanislav V. Voronyi" wrote:
>
> Hi All!
> I've bought new videocard from S3 - S3 Trio3D2X. This card isn't known for
> /proc/pci or lspci utility. This card have the following PCI ID:
> 5333:8a13 - please add to oldpci & lspci.
>
> And now my main problem with this card - when I tried to set better screen
> resolution using SVGATextmode 1.8 I found strange thing. I treat this card
> in /etc/TextConfig as S3Trio. When I tried to set mode
> "132x43x8_16" 65 1056 1096 1216 1336 688 688 694 714 font 8x16
> my monitor turn off. I check up with grabmode what mode I've set and saw that
> I've got 130 MHz dot clock instead of 65. I tied several another modes and
> every time I've got dot clock twice greater. If anyone know how to set properly
> dot clock for this card please reply to me.
>
The newer S3 Trio3D cards are not well supported by Linux at the moment.
You will need to use the vesa fbcon driver to get any graphics at all,
and unaccelerated at that. You do get a nice high-rez console though. :)
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