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From: beleos@cs.... (Louis N. Beleos)
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help with S3 video card needed
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 16:08:04 GMT



On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 sanfranmike@wor... wrote:

> Before adding my card to the vgadb on the boot diskette I
> did get a ahell prompt but it was on a character based
> screen not the gui. After adding my card to the vgadb
> file I do not get a shell prompt.
> 
It looks as though vga initialization is failing. 
The following is all that I could find in trying to
associate a chipset with (0xC0044="S3 86CM65 Video BIOS").
The associated chipset appears to be the Aurora64V+, which
basically is a Trio64V+ core, which in turn is an enhanced
Trio64 (www.faqs.org/faqs/pc-hardware-faq/video/chipsets/).

There are two vgadb controller entries for the trio64, one
with linear and one without. If you have already tried these
then I am out of ideas (and out of my league).

Louis