Kludge/Fix:XFree 4.2.0 S3 968 IBM ramdac not supported
Not sure if this would help someone with a S3 968 based video card with a IBM ramdac.
Some of these cards belong to the Diamond Stealth video 64 series. The symptom are as follows: You own a S3 968 based video card with an IBM ramdac (e.g. 525, 526, 640). After upgrading to XFree 4.2.0 release (e.g. with a distribution upgrade). When you tried to start X windows, the startup fails and the following message is found in the XFree startup log: (--) s3(0): Attached RAMDAC is IBM 526 (--) s3(0): This IBM RAMDAC is NOT supported by this driver, aborting (EE) s3(0): Ramdac probe failed I've posted the patch on my web at: http://home.pacific.net.sg/~goh.andrew/s3_patch/s3.html Note that the patch/fix is experimental, hence, u'd take your chances with that. Cheers, Andrew |
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