Request for assistance

[dubyma at HUGSE1.HARVARD.EDU]

  I have the same problem with a video chip built into the motherboard 
(Dell PC); it's an S3 chip, but I can't get any more information from the 
BIOS and I can't see it inside the PC (the documantation is not model 
specific.) Is there any chance a bad specification can damage the board? 

Thanks,
Marc   

On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Chuck Noyes wrote:

> I assume it's a VGA card and the monitor can handle VGA graphics.
> If so, just try specifying a plain-jane VGA video driver
> for XF86. That should work. Once that's done, then you try 
> experimenting with more *exotic* drivers.
> XF86 contains a *probe* that can do some poking around with your
> video sub-system. That might be able to shed some light....:)
> 
> BTW: There's a brief article, actually it's a letter to the editor, in
> this months _Linux Journal_ about this very problem.
> 
> Bon Chance.....Chuck
> 
> > 
> > 
> >    I'm trying to install XFree86 on an old AST Advantage! NB notebook
> > computer and the only information I have been able to get about its video
> > is the following:
> >       Chips and Technologies 65535 chipset on the motherboard, with 512k
> >       of 70ns ram;
> >       CCFT (whatever that means) edgelit mono 9.5" diagonal display, whose
> >       maximum resolution is 640x480 in 64 grayscale, 80 columns by 25 lines.
> >    Any help you can give will be appreciated. 
> > 
> 
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