From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 5: 6:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (pppc1-83.eisa.net.au [203.166.251.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0AE14EE8 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 05:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA64032; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:03:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:03:18 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Gunnar Flygt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux is better than FreeBSD on X? Message-ID: <19990908220318.A63916@blues.ghis.net> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: <19990907212046.A1775@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - The FreeBSD Project -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message