Re: S3 support in FC2

[Jim Cornette]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>  At 01:32 PM 6/23/2004, Jim Cornette wrote:
>  
> > Except for the cow on the trampoline not working on FC2 with an S3 
> > based video chip, I see way more advancements to FC2 compared to 
> > earlier RHL or other Linux distros that I've tried out.
>  
>  
>  Jim,
>  
>  I have an IBM Thinkpad T23 (P3/1.2G, 512MB, 40GB, 14" 1400x1050, S3 
>  Savage/IX w/8MB) and it picked up FC2 without even blinking. Pardon the 
>  pun. Can you be more specific about your problem, and whether it's a 
>  "problem" or if you *know* it won't work?
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>   
I believe the card is SIS instead of S3. (630 version.)

http://www.voxtechnologies.com/SBCs/pcisa-3716e2v.htm

or on this cpu board

http://www.voxtechnologies.com/SBCs/rocky-3705ev.htm

I was thinking that I was using this board version when trying the 
screensaver. The error for the screensaver referenced S3. This version 
has an S3 Trio3D

http://www.voxtechnologies.com/SBCs/rocky-3702ev-r4v8.htm


I also had the screensaver problem with a system running the latest 
version of vmware, on an XP host. I first thought the problem was 
exclusive to vmware and vmware tools.

Just a by chance discovery. Regular programs seemed to work alright and 
display.
With this problem, there is no preview available for the inflicted 
screensaver. Usually you will get error message text in yellowish 
writing displayed on the screen.

Jim



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