Re: How to use 3.1 XFree86 driver for S3Vision864

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:07:32AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 
> > However, to get a comfortable X running, I either need the recent X to
> > support my old S3Vision864 or I need a 3.? driver.  If I stick with a
> > 3.? driver, am I opening up to security issues at all?
> 
> I think that the Vision 864 is supported by the "s3" driver. But that is 
> still old. Sorry I don't answer your question in the Subject line.
> 
> You probably want to use pkgsrc and the modular-xorg packages instead. The 
> driver is pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-s3. I don't know if binary packages are 
> available for that though.
> 

I found in debian that an S3 after 3.* doesn't include support for the
S3_sdac (clock chip and ramdac) and without it the image is terrible; so
I really need to use a 3.* xserver.

Doug.