[ale] XF86Config help requested

[jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu (John M. Mills)]

Still sorting out a new box, I am having trouble getting the "Device"
section of XF86Config correct for my new video card.

The card is a "Path 411" 'Trio 64,' and the chip is an 86C765.  XF86_S3
should support this chip, but I keep getting refusals to match the card's
chipset.  I tried several variants on:
   Chipset "86C765", Chipset "S3", ...,
but apparently the server extracts a text string it can't recognize as a
proper chipset, and exits.  Also, the card has some type of ramdac, but I
can't identify the type.  How can I get this information into the card
definition, or do I need to?  This is XFree-3.2, straight off the RedHat
4.2 cdrom.

I am using something like the following:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Path 411"
    VendorName  "Path"
    BoardName   "Trio64"
    Chipset     "86C765"
    VideoRam    2048

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