[ale] Video Card

[Craig McDaniel]

RHS Linux User wrote:
> 
> Hello ale:
> 
> I have a Gateway 2000 with an STB Virge video card with 4 meg ram.  I have
> version 2.0.0 of RedHat on my machine.  I am unable to run X on the console.
> The command X -probeonly returns with the message "S3: unknown chip set".
> Also, the card is not recongized at startup.  The dmesg command reveals the
> folling message: Warning : Unknown PCI device (5333:883d).  Please read
> include/linux/pci.h.  By the way, this is a PCI bus.  The version of XFree86 I
> have is uhh... uhh... well, I don't know how to tell what version I have.
> Right now, I'm running X from an NCD X-Terminal, but want to get on the
> console.  Anyone have any ideas for me?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give...
> 
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Yes, I had a similar problem.  I had to download the new Virge chipset
thing from the XFree people.  Sorry, I didn't write down the ftp site
name.  I'll go ahead and upload the driver to my ftp site:
ftp.mindspring.com/users/kreg/X32S3V.tgz
You'll have to make sure that you're pointing to it somehow.  In my
RedHat system I had to change the symbolic link in /etc/X ->
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V.
Good luck,
Craig McDaniel