Fedora Release 1 - console display problem (S3 ProSavage)

Usuario de Internet, Aurelio fae7901 at yahoo.es
Tue Nov 18 02:59:00 UTC 2003


El lun, 17-11-2003 a las 11:28, Gregory Woodbury escribió:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:53:44AM -0000, Chiu, PCM (Peter)  wrote:
> > Having mounted Fedora on an AMD Athlon system with integrated S3 graphics,
.../...
> There isn't anything missing.  I had a similar problem with an S3
> install.  The solution for me was to change the S3 driver in XF86config
> to "vesa" and it's been working ever since.

I've got another AMD Athlon with integrated S3 graphics (detraying 32 MB
from system RAM):

[root at fae7901 rpms]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host
Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
.../...
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8
KM266/KL266]

Fedora Installation reports that like "S3 ProSavage KM133"

On Red Hat 8 (previous to Fedora Core 1 in that machine) I can only get
framebuffer video, but it was solved as nearly I'll describe. Fedora
seems to catch some sort of bug in XFRee86 4.3.0 for this video
integrated and chipset.

The solution for me was a forced install of the module "savage_drv.o"
build on a similar system (perhaps another Fedora) from XFree86 sources
modified by Tim Roberts (www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html). The 1.1.27t
builded module works for me. If your system is similar (it's not
guaranteed!), backup your /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o
and put the supplied, from a reinit on runlevel 3 (do 'telinit 3' as
root, change driver and then 'telinit 5' to resume runlevel 5). You need
some additional tunning on /etc/X11/XF86Config, as explained by Tim on
http://probo.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/2003-July/000037.html

I'm not a C programmer nor a Linux expert, only a fellow Red Hat Linux
user...:-) Seems to be a problem related to XFree86 4.3.0 (as builded in
Fedora but in another distros) closely related to S3 video chipsets.
Disabling "useBIOS" was all I needed to see that marvellous distro
(Fedora core 1)

One machine upgraded, maybe tomorrow I'll upgrade the laptop.......:-)



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