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Posted: Mar. 06 2007,17:45 QUOTE
You'll probably have to find your retail box/manual, etc. or open up your case.
4.3.0: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.html
3.3.6: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/S31.html

Anyways, you didn't report if you tried 4.3's "s3virge" yet?
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Posted: Mar. 07 2007,06:22 QUOTE
I'll try s3virge and vesa today.
I think I opened the case when I looked at the card's chips and saw they all had the S3 logo..
I don't have the box/manual or something..

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Posted: Mar. 07 2007,16:23 QUOTE
Meanwhile, here's the relevant part of lspci:
VGA compatible controller: S3 inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]
memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [Size=8M]

The card is Vesa VBE 1.2 (maybe not important)

Edit: s3virge gave me a fatal server error: no devices detected
Edit 2: vesa works great, better than Xvesa and the S3 driver. It lets me have a high resolution with 75Hz refresh rate, but it too recognizes only 2mb of memory. And it doesn't have acceleration....

I could use the 3.3.6 for acceleration, but I remember that it needs modelines (How do I figure those out?) Anyway, I'm happy with vesa for now.

For others in same kind of situation, here's a readily compiled 3.3.6 server with all drivers:
http://www.milanosbar.com/xfree86/knoppix_svga.tgz
(got it from this thread..)

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Posted: Mar. 07 2007,17:25 QUOTE
A final question: How can Xfree with vesa be so much faster than Xvesa? It's slower on boot and shutdown, but many programs start seconds faster. It cannot all be from already loaded libs, can it? I mean, it's the same driver in both afterall..

Oh, I'm too getting these errors while starting X:
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could´t load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

Are some xkb keymaps dropped from the extension?

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Posted: Mar. 07 2007,23:39 QUOTE
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I'll try it with the vesa driver (Is it going to be the same as Xvesa


vesa will be faster than xvesa, but it's a bit heavier in terms of memory usage.


Your first error is just a debian-specific patch for privileges - shouldn't affect your usage, but you can create that file if you want.
I think those keymaps aren't included... if you need special keys or w/e you might need to grab xkbcomp
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