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From: nickf@ptd.net (Nick Folino)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: S3 Trio64V+ and X windows
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:51:35 GMT
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On 18 Feb 1997 14:45:14 GMT, Syed Umair Ahmed Shah
<b97063@ravi.lums.edu.pk> wrote:

>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? 
>
>Thank you,
>
>This is what I get when I run X -probeonly.
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I think the driver for the trio64 specifically says DO NOT probe

I used xf86config told it my video card and went with default....works
fine.

Nick