RE: [9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x

RE: [9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x

[Stephen Parker]

> From: Russ Cox [mailto:rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com]
> 	Apologies for yet another tedious vga question.
> 	Anyone tried or had any luck with a S3 Trio3D/2X?
> I'm not sure we've ever tried. I think it should
> either just work or work with minimal changes:
> the Trio3D/2X should behave as a Trio64.

I tried using the Trio64 configuration in the distributed vgadb with no
luck.

Is there a way to install from the vitanuova cd without vga,
I fancy my chances more at working this out with the source available.

Thanks,
stephen

Re: [9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x

[liquidsphear]

In article <20000921131935.4CBDD199EA@mail>,
  9fans@cse.psu.edu wrote:
> 	Apologies for yet another tedious vga question.
> 	Anyone tried or had any luck with a S3 Trio3D/2X?
>
> I'm not sure we've ever tried. I think it should
> either just work or work with minimal changes:
> the Trio3D/2X should behave as a Trio64.
> It's certain that you'd have to edit /lib/vgadb
> to add a magic string to identify your card.
>
> Russ
>
> Yes, exact dame thing happened to me. That's how I fixed it. Well, on
the boot disk anyway, still messen with /lib/vgadb -- ed's a pain ;)


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RE: [9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x

[forsyth]

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yes, there will be.  the installation procedure simply takes you step by step
through something you can do by hand.  given a shell prompt, you can prepare
the destination device (eg, using disk/fdisk) and unpack the archive using gunzip |disk/mkext
(note that there are special options to be used to disk/fdisk and disk/mkext, so it's
not completely straightforward).  we did something similar to upgrade our file servers
to third edition.  the scripts controlling the graphical installation
process are in /sys/lib/pcdist/inst (for reference).  we can probably reduce that to
essential commands.


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From: Stephen Parker <stephen.parker@pitechnology.com>
To: "'9fans@cse.psu.edu'" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:43:32 +0100
Message-ID: <A12EAD94F69FD211ABB800805F650CC401543100@EAGLE>

> From: Russ Cox [mailto:rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com]
> 	Apologies for yet another tedious vga question.
> 	Anyone tried or had any luck with a S3 Trio3D/2X?
> I'm not sure we've ever tried. I think it should
> either just work or work with minimal changes:
> the Trio3D/2X should behave as a Trio64.

I tried using the Trio64 configuration in the distributed vgadb with no
luck.

Is there a way to install from the vitanuova cd without vga,
I fancy my chances more at working this out with the source available.

Thanks,
stephen

Re: [9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x

[Russ Cox]

	Apologies for yet another tedious vga question.
	Anyone tried or had any luck with a S3 Trio3D/2X?

I'm not sure we've ever tried. I think it should
either just work or work with minimal changes:
the Trio3D/2X should behave as a Trio64.
It's certain that you'd have to edit /lib/vgadb
to add a magic string to identify your card.

Russ

[9fans] vga hell: S3 Trio3d/2x

[Stephen Parker]

Apologies for yet another tedious vga question.
Anyone tried or had any luck with a S3 Trio3D/2X?

Thanks,
stephen