Bob Bernstein <rs@bernstein.providence.ri.us> writes:
>I have a new athlon machine bearing onboard video of the S3 ProSavage 
>variety. The 40g drive is evenly split between installs of Debian Linux 
>and NetBSD stable, albeit the latter now sports a -current kernel. (The 
>current kernel configured the onboard audio, whereas the install 
>'stable' kernel did not...)
[...]
>I believe that 'vga1' is the onboard video (the linux kernel detects 
the
>same product number: 0x8d04). But looking at the above, it seems that
>vga1 is handling wscons. Is this why it is not available for X? The
>error message from X, after trying startx, is "(EE) No devices
>detected." 
>
>So, is there some kernel tweaking that will fix this?
>

Here is what worked for me:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2003/05/07/0024.html
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2003/05/08/0005.html