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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.238.120.21!jump.net!news From: Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: S3 Trio64V+ and X windows Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:52:02 -0600 Organization: Phoenix Net-Tek LLC Lines: 35 Message-ID: <330B67F2.2781E494@pnk.com> References: <5ecf9q$g1e@chenab.lums.edu.pk> <2isee5.8j.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pnk.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35829 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > In article <5ecf9q$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 one of the problems i had which might be similar was that a misconfigured mouse device would cause a crash. i thought it was an adapter driver problem for quite a while. who knows, perhaps this could cause your problem too -- _______________________________________________________________________ | Curt Finch Phoenix Net-Tek LLC curt@pnk.com 512-795-0709 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------