From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 17:53:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yoda.dccnet.com (mail.deltacable.com [207.230.239.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D23E37B821 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kg@versys.net) Received: from versys.net (unverified [209.5.131.193]) by yoda.dccnet.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:22:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3904E598.A4FF0628@versys.net> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:23:52 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ching-Wu Terng Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video Card Driver for xfree86 3.3.6 References: <000801bfae22$4715df00$dc6845ab@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ching-Wu Terng wrote: > > Hi: > > I am running a dual-boot (FreeBSD/Win 98) box with a S3 Savage 4 > graphic card. The machine is a Intel PIII 450 MHz, the FreeBSD runnig > is version 4.0, and the XFree86 is version 3.3.6. According to the > information I obtained from the Web, XFree86 3.3.6 should support the > S3 Savage 4 cards with couple approrpiate drivers. However I am not > able to run the x-windows properly and I can not change the resolution > of the screen. (even w/ ctrl+alt+ + or -) The resolution setting is > always fixed at 320X240. Reads like a small misconfiguration of monitor or wrong answers in the configuration. Start windows with "startx > startx.log > 2&>1" to capture your startup output and check if there are any clues derived from that. FWIW, I only use the XF86_SVGA driver for my S3's. Found them to perform better for me. -- Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Technician | VerSys Communications Ltd. | http://www.versys.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message