Re: [tlug] Screen resolutions with 64MB

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:37:23PM +0900, Darren Cook wrote:



> 
> However by opening the case to get the motherboard name, and some
> googling, it seems I have a "S3 Unichrome pro", and after some trial and
> error, and some more googling, it seems the driver is called "via". The
> driver is not the one called "s3". Obvious really, I don't know how I
> made that mistake.

Sorry I missed this one, I could have saved you some time.  Yes, the S3
Unichrome, takes the via driver. 


When one does xorgconfig, the via driver isn't listed.  It's a bit of a
nuisance, and I confess, I found it out by doing X -configure, which I
always consider laziness. 

In FreeBSD, I'm able to get this information with pciconf -lv.  I think
there's something quite similar in Linux, but I seem to have forgotten
what it's called.


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