Description of problem: I'm sure it was working in 4.2 as unaccelerated but maybe I still had the old server. Vesa is also failing so the best I can get is 320x200. This is mostly a tag item so that we know its broken. I don't expect an instant fix The installer runs XFree86 with the vga driver then the veaa driver the goes back to text mode. That is all handled ok so you get a text mode box fine
Please attach full X server log and config file.
What do you want logs of . vesa can't find any matcing modes at all, vga gives me 320x200 as it doesnt seem to know the chipset
I thought the logs might show something useful.. I just checked the XFree86 support site, and this hardware is completely unsupported in 4.2.1, and still not ported to 4.3.0. http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/Status36.html#36 Does this card have a VESA VBE BIOS? If so, what version of VBE? I'm going to checkout the 3.3.6 codebase out of CVS and see how much work might be involved in writing a Weitek driver for 9x00.
Its a fairly old card. I dont know what VBE it has. Before you worry about writing a driver I'd count the number of Weitek P9xxx entries in our RHN stats. It might not be worth it.
To get more than 2320x240 with "vga" you'd need to use color depth 4 with the vga driver. That will probably suck, but should give 640x480 16 colors. Do you have docs for Weitek hardware by chance? Might not be necessary, because there is driver source in 3.3.6 I found. A basic driver without DGA/DPMS and all that crap might not be too difficult.
Defering for future.. we can chat about working on a driver for this if you like when time isn't so busy in the future. I investigated 3.3.6 sources, and there should IMHO be enough info there to get a driver going without accel, and probably even with accel.