s3 virge video card

Shaun Oliver shauno at goanna.net.au
Sun Dec 30 06:06:58 EST 2001


hi terry,
the bios, and ram are all functional on the board.
the only other os that'll work is windows2000 and windows98.
it's just linux.
On Sat, 29 Dec
2001,
Terry Cudney wrote:

> Hi Sean,
> 
> 	The S3/Virge video cards work fine w/ Linux. I've had a couple and no probs with a text (non-X) system. I never had X on those systems, so cant' comment on S3/Virge w/ X.
> 
> 	Anyway, X has nothing to do with booting, so that isn't your problem.
> 
> 	It does sound like a hardware problem, perhaps unrelated to Linux. Have you had this system funtioning with any OS? Do you know that the main board/bios/ram/etc are functional?
> 
> 	HTH,
> 	    --terry
> You wrote:
> 
> -=> Hi guys,
> -=> I've another question relating to my pentium 100 that I'm trying to solve.
> -=> could the video card the "s3 virge" have any baring on my situation at all?
> -=> personally I don't see how but I thought I'd ask all the same. just to clear up some things here.
> -=> thanks in advance.
> -=> Shaun.
> -=>
> -=>
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> Name:	Terry D. Cudney
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