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Date:      Mon,  6 Mar 2000 09:41:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No cigar with 3.9.18 :(
Message-ID:  <14531.49053.449583.736584@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000305113906.00c63200@mail.vt.edu>
References:  <3.0.32.20000305113906.00c63200@mail.vt.edu>

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nm writes:
 > At 04:11 PM 3/5/00 +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
 > >On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, nm wrote:
 > >
 > snip
 > >
 > >Thats right. All the hardware drivers are loadable (look in
 > >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules).
 > >
 > >> 
 > >> Next, I ran startx and the screen pretended to change
 > >> video modes, filled up with random color, random 
 > >> characters (garbage), waited 3 seconds, pretended to
 > >> change modes again, and returned me to a prompt where
 > >> all I only see about every other character and things
 > >> are screwy :(

This is about what I see, except mine actually does change modes into
1152x864, 16bpp.  8bpp seems to work for me too.  24bpp crashes the
server, but text mode is properly restored.

 > >> Where did I go wrong?
 > >
 > >Not sure. At this point, the only hardware I know works well is MGA (which
 > >I'm using right now). What kind of graphics card are you using?
 > 
 > BTW, thanks for xfpatch :)
 > 
 > S3 Virge (86C325).

I'm using an S3Virge too.

(--) PCI:*(0:13:0) S3 ViRGE rev 2, Mem @ 0x84000000/26

Do you have the s3virge driver specified in your config file.  Eg:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "blah"
    VendorName  "Unknown"
    VideoRam    4096
    Driver      "s3virge"       # for XFree86 4.* (and 3.9.*)
EndSection


 > When I start X (8 bit depth), I see the following error printed:
 > Symbol VErrorF from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a is unresolved!

I see the same error messages, I assumed they were harmless.

 > I believe Andrew Gallatin did get XFree86 3.9.18 running on his AS200,
 > but I have no idea as to what video card he was using.

A Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, ver 1.01, 4 MB ram.

Drew





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