[ABANDON ] Mint Petra Mate S3 Virge driver

[nuagedeboucane]

Hello. I' m looking for the S3 Virge video driver for Petra Mate. I tried to follow instructions provided in this thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ge#p605149 , which instructs to get the driver here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dap ... rge.4.html Is the driver the one at the page, and named s3virge.4.gz ? Please tell me what exactly to do with it.


Currently, I' m running in low res, with no proprietary driver ( No one is selectable in the driver manager ) It' okay for basic browsing, but I go very often on Youtube, and I get very low res graphics here. I know that the S3 Virge is an old outdated card, but it runs well in Win XP, and I can't afford to upgrade it.



Thank you in advance, for your help

[gtsfer]

Do you know exactly which S3 Virge card you have there? Run this from the terminal window, it'll be more specific about your hardware.

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sudo inxi -Fx

[nuagedeboucane]

Do you know exactly which S3 Virge card you have there? Run this from the terminal window, it'll be more specific about your hardware.

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sudo inxi -Fx

Here are my specs

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System:    Host: marc-HP-dc5000-uT-PJ104UA Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.1) 
           Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 16 Petra
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP dc5000 uT(PJ104UA) serial: CAC508046X 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 090Ch serial: CAC508046X Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: 786B0 v1.00 date: 02/12/2004
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-HT-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 5585.7 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2792.854 MHz 2: 2792.854 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Card-2: S3 Graphics 86c325 [ViRGE] bus-ID: 05:09.0 
           X.org: 1.14.5 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: 1000 1400 bus-ID: 00:1f.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.11.0-12-generic
Network:   Card: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5782 Gigabit Ethernet driver: tg3 ver: 3.132 bus-ID: 05:02.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:12:79:ff:b2:0d
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (11.6% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Maxtor_6E040L0 size: 40.0GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 9.2G used: 4.4G (50%) fs: ext2 ID: swap-1 size: 1.06GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 142 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 259.3/994.3MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.1 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 

Thank you for your interest in trying to help me.

[gtsfer]

I'm looking for the S3 Virge video driver for Petra Mate. I tried to follow instructions provided in this thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ge#p605149 , which instructs to get the driver here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dap ... rge.4.html Is the driver the one at the page, and named s3virge.4.gz ? Please tell me what exactly to do with it.

Yes, it looks correct. But if you follow the first link http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... t=s3+virge it gives complete instructions on how to get AND install the driver with one command. It's way done on the page in AlbertP's post. The key command is this ...

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-s3virge

This should download (apt-get) and install it all in one operation. The link above has a second page too, for a check if all went right. The very last post "Run inxi -Gx in terminal to confirm that it's using the s3virge driver."

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sudo inxi -Gx

[nuagedeboucane]

I have tried this command and got this result

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
[sudo] password for marc: 
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
E: Impossible de trouver le paquet xserver-xorg-video-s3virge

(Impossible to find the xserver-xorg-video-s3virge package)

I have already tried this one, but redid it, just in case of a typing error. Looks that this driver has been wiped off from the web

[gtsfer]

Opps, I think you need to add the PPA. http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xo ... eo-s3virge

It leads to this site ("This package belongs to a PPA: xorg-edgers") for exact instructions on how to add it...

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-e ... st=precise

The last command in the list is exactly what you just did. (sudo apt-get install <package name>).

[nuagedeboucane]

Opps, I think you need to add the PPA. http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xo ... eo-s3virge

It leads to this site ("This package belongs to a PPA: xorg-edgers") for exact instructions on how to add it...

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-e ... st=precise

The last command in the list is exactly what you just did. (sudo apt-get install <package name>).

PPA added. I have followed the procedure:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
[sudo] password for marc: 
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
 == Xorg packages fresh from git ==

Currently supported releases are Precise/12.04, Saucy/13.10 and Trusty/14.04

If you are on an intel 965 or newer GPU, be sure to install a 3.6 or newer kernel (linux-generic-lts-raring if you are on 12.04) as mesa 9.2 now requires a 3.6 kernel.

* For less fresh, more stable updates, see https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

* WARNING: Do not use this PPA with the precise X backport stacks, aka if you fresh install of 12.04.2 or newer. You can switch back to a compatible one by installing xserver-xorg-lts-precise instead if you do want to use these packages but horrible things will happen if you don't.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge for a script that installs and runs the test packages in a live CD/media session, for quick and easy temporary testing.

To revert to official packages, install the ppa-purge package and run "sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers". Note: This currently has issues in oneiric because ppa-purge there does not work with multiarch. ppa-purge packages from this PPA do purge correctly on precise and newer.

== New features ==

June 29th, 2012: SNA is now on by default on intel. If you have problems (such as screen corruption, parts of the screen not updating, or crashes with intel_drv.so in the Xorg.0.log backtrace), save this as /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "intel"
        Driver          "intel"
        Option          "AccelMethod"   "uxa"
EndSection

== Important notice ==

This PPA is currently meant to be used as a whole. Please do _not_ individually install packages from it, add it to your sources and let your package manager pull in every update. The packages here build against each other and compile different features based on whats available at build time. Do not assume that because it lets you install a DDX with just the driver and libdrm update that it will work.  These packages are made with scripts that use the the current packages as the base, so some dependencies can be wrong and your package manager will not resolve that for you.  If you want to individually install something from here, grab the source and rebuild it in your current environment instead.

** Please do not publish instructions for how to install from this archive without linking to this page! Anyone using packages from this archive is expected to read this page first and it is recommended to check back occasionally for notice on problems that may arise. **
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

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Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
E: Impossible de trouver le paquet xserver-xorg-video-s3virge

Still impossible to find this package.

[gtsfer]

Apparently I got the wrong repository to add. I followed the instructions, but ???
The output here says to remove that one that was just added and to use the one below. Then see if the process runs w/o errors.

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sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-update  

[nuagedeboucane]

Apparently I got the wrong repository to add. I followed the instructions, but ???
The output here says to remove that one that was just added and to use the one below. Then see if the process runs w/o errors.

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sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-update  

For the: sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers command, I had some troubles. First, the console didn't recognize ppa-purge. So, I installed it via synaptic. When retyping the command, I got about a textbook of messages defyling on the screen at high speed. Sometimes I was getting a y/n choice, but did not took the time to read at all. I had the chance to see only some of these messages. It was like: uninstalling mate...uninstalling mdm ... unistalling firefox. I knew something went wrong

Lesson learned. carefully read all warnings and messages

So now, since xorg-edgers PPA is purged (and so the rest of my system ) I have just done another fresh install. (not a bad thing... I wasn't satisfied with my first partionning and install.

After waiting, I' ve been able to try to add the new PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-update
[sudo] password for marc:
Impossible d'ajouter le PPA: 'No JSON object could be decoded'.

I have tried to remove the /x-update and resubmitted the add-apt-repository command This time I got a result.

Then I retyped the command:

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
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E: Impossible de trouver le paquet xserver-xorg-video-s3virge

Again

I shouldn't had to modify the PPA name by removing the /x-update at the end. I had to remove the shortened PPA name from the list, because my update manager would no longer work. I did this within the package manager's option to remove a PPA. (not eager to use ppa-purge again, even if I know it was my fault )

[gtsfer]

I shouldn't had to modify the PPA name by removing the /x-update at the end. I had to remove the shortened PPA name from the list, because my update manager would no longer work. I did this within the package manager's option to remove a PPA. (not eager to use ppa-purge again, even if I know it was my fault )

I haven't abandoned you on this, going to look at it again today to see what's wrong.

[gtsfer]

Here's what I came up with. LM Petra (v16) is based on Ubuntu 13.10. Here's the Ubuntu package site. http://packages.ubuntu.com/

From there go to "Saucy" = 13.10. Then we look for "X Windows System Software". Finally, we find "xserver-xorg-video-s3". This has to be your package. NOT the "xserver-xorg-video-s3video". That's an old repo or it's for a different release and therefore the command needs to be...

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-S3

And It should be found in your default repositories if I tracked this down correctly.

[nuagedeboucane]

Here's what I came up with. LM Petra (v16) is based on Ubuntu 13.10. Here's the Ubuntu package site. http://packages.ubuntu.com/

From there go to "Saucy" = 13.10. Then we look for "X Windows System Software". Finally, we find "xserver-xorg-video-s3". This has to be your package. NOT the "xserver-xorg-video-s3video". That's an old repo or it's for a different release and therefore the command needs to be...

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-S3

And It should be found in your default repositories if I tracked this down correctly.

After all my readings, I have seen, several times, that the s3 driver did not support the s3 virge

I typed the command, and got the message that it was already installed.

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-S3
[sudo] password for marc: 
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xserver-xorg-video-s3 est déjà la plus récente version disponible.
Les paquets suivants ont été installés automatiquement et ne sont plus nécessaires :
  wine1.4 wine1.4-i386
Veuillez utiliser « apt-get autoremove » pour les supprimer.
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 9 non mis à jour.

"xserver-xorg-video-s3 is already the most recent available version"

I still have too low res videos (like 4 colours on youtube), and still don't see s3 in driver manager. On my other computer, which is working well, I see the driver that is currently in use for my graphics card.

Thak you again for your time. I appreciate a lot.

[gtsfer]

You're welcome. LOL We both learned something on PPAs and drivers at least. Thanks to Google translate too. My French is terrible.

I got rid of the suggestion to mark this [SOLVED].

[nuagedeboucane]

You're welcome. LOL We both learned something on PPAs and drivers at least. Thanks to Google translate too. My French is terrible.

Can you edit your first post and add [SOLVED] in the subject? Thanks

I' m very thankfull for all your efforts to help me fix my problem. But, since I still have the problem, (the S3 driver doesn't work, like I wrote in my last message) I prefer not to add SOLVED in the subject.

[nuagedeboucane]

You're welcome. LOL We both learned something on PPAs and drivers at least. Thanks to Google translate too. My French is terrible.

I got rid of the suggestion to mark this [SOLVED].

Absolutely not intending to get rid of any solution. I was just thanking you for your help that you have already did. I haven't gave up, and all help, including yours is always welcome. Sorry for the misunderstanding

[gtsfer]

No no nuagedeboucane, don't worry about it. I didn't take it that way, just edited that post because I'm in agreement.

[gtsfer]

Here's something you can try for running at a better display resolution. But if it blows your system up, or causes smoke and fire to furiously belch from your monitor or computer, please don't hold me responsible. It's just something I came across. It appears there are ways to "add screen resolutions to Linux Mint" (Google that).
http://myit-solutions.blogspot.com/2010 ... splay.html

[gtsfer]

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=164306

[nuagedeboucane]

Finaly, I have decided to use the board itegrated intel graphic, by creating a xorg.conf and adding lines to make it work. Now I can play Youtube videos without these green and pink garbled display.




Thank you for the time you took on my case. As soon as I can get a more recent card ....