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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:03:18 +1000
From:      Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux is better than FreeBSD on X?
Message-ID:  <19990908220318.A63916@blues.ghis.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909081428020.71452-100000@localhost>
References:  <19990907212046.A1775@sr.se> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909081428020.71452-100000@localhost>

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On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 at 14:33:42 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> I believe something is wrong here but We have a S3 Trio3D vga card
> here and it does not work with X! with both 3.3.4 and 3.3.5
> Versions! but with linux it works fine! and when I copy the conf
> file generated by XF86Setup program to FreeBSD from Linux then it
> still does not work! I believe it is supposed to work with the same
> hardware and conf file since the resolutions and frequencies are
> defined in the file! and also we use the same version of X in both
> linux and FreeBSD
> 
> So does it mean that I should install Linux? or does anybody have a
> solution?

What X server are you using?  According to the card list on the
XFree86 web site (http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html), only the
VGA16 server is supported for the Trio3D.

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