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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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