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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: S3 Trio64V+ and X windows Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 06:43:46 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2isee5.8j.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <5ecf9q$g1e@chenab.lums.edu.pk> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35748 In article <5ecf9q$g1e@chenab.lums.edu.pk>, Syed Umair Ahmed Shah <b97063@ravi.lums.edu.pk> writes: > I have got an IBM Pentium 133MHz with S3 Trio64V+ video chip. > The problem is that I can't get X-windows to run on it. I am running > FreeBSD 2.2-Beta. I can't even run the XF86Setup utility. If I use the > xf86config utility and give it the S3 Trio64V+ card and the other > configuration but when run startx or X my screen just blanks out. > Trying different servers did not help. Even trying a monitor that works > with X-windows did not work. So the only thing left was the S3 chip. > > Could anyone help me? My system uses the same chipset, and I'm running X with no problems here. Are you sure you have a complete install of X? Perhaps the server you need is missing? Try the S3 Trio (generic) server in xf86config. What I used to use under XFree86 3.1.2. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads