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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.
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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.

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Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads