old s3 graphic card xfree86 support?
 

I installed zipslack 9.0 on an empty 840 MB drive on a Pentium that also has a 2GB win98 drive (almost full). I am trying to add XFree86 support but have run into problems because the Diamond Multimedia Stealth 64 card is no longer supported by XFree86-4.3.0 and I couldn't get the generic VGA server to work. I installed the XFree86-3.3.6 S3 server from the slackware "pasture" directory which claims to support the S3 968 chip. Installing this package creates a link in /usr/X11R6/bin from XF86_S3 to X, setting this server as the default.

I don't have any documentation for the card but by examining the card and using a windows S3 card probing program from the web I manually added the following since autoprobing doesn't seem to work:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Diamond Stealth64 Video 3240/3400 (IBM RAMDAC)"
Driver "S3"
RAMDAC IBM_RGB526
DacSpeed 220
EndSection

There is also a 14.318180 MHz clock chip but I haven't worked out whether that is the "true" clock entry value- there is conflicting info on the web and no docs with the S3 server download.

When I try either startx, XF86_S3 or XFree86 -configure I get a kernel null dereference error, oops and a stack trace.

I just want a simple X window server and client so that I can have multiple windows open to learn some scripting: no games or fancy graphics. Any suggestions for more information or alternative strategies (e.g. remove the XFree86-4.3.0 and install all XFree86-3.3.6?).

It looks like you're going to have to use the old method of configuring X:

/usr/X11/bin/xf86config

The old smokin command line utility, hopefully you've installed the old 3.3.6 version of xf86config, but if its the wrong one then you'll be able to tell from the 4-era XF86Config that it builds.

Cheers,

Finegan

i still use xfree 3.3.6 most of the time.
i have 2 newer versions on here too
i start the old one with oldx and
the newest one with newnewx.

this is the output of the old SVGA server i
am currently using. You might just want to uninstall
all of your 4.x server and download or compile 3.3.6.

Operating System: Linux 2.2.5-22smp i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1):
s3_savage, NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
RIVA ULTRA TNT2, RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED,
GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i,
ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a,
ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100,
et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33,
gvga, r128, ati, sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215,
sis86c225, sis5597, sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630,
sis540, tvga8200lx, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl,
tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi,
tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660,
tgui9680, tgui9682, tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388,
cyber9397, cyber9520, cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd,
blade3d, cyberblade, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428,
clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462,
clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541,
clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e,
cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200,
mgag100, mgag400, oti067, oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228,
ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440,
video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek,
s3_virge, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097,
NM2160, NM2200, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545,
ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct65555, ct68554, ct69000,
ct64200, ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740,
i740_pci, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, i810, i810-dc100, i810e, smi,
generic


i like it cause i can stick all kinds of different video cards
in my machine without changing configs.

I had this same problem! :) Thank you for publishing your solutions.