From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 5:23:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DA214F59 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 05:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA97533; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:21:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:21:43 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen X-Sender: yurtesen@localhost To: Jim Mock Cc: Gunnar Flygt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux is better than FreeBSD on X? In-Reply-To: <19990908220318.A63916@blues.ghis.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG See the FAQ and the README.S3V file in the docs there it says that X is supporting Trio3D and also if it does not support Trio3D then it should not work with linux with 1024x768 right? also it works with 1280x1024 with linux too... On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Jim Mock wrote: > 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