From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 21:54:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01109 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.aros.net (shell.aros.net [205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01103 Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) id WAA10421; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:56:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199604080456.WAA10421@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: Please help me with my problem.. To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:56:33 -0600 (MDT) Cc: nlan@athena.aegean.ariadne-t.gr, hackers@FreeBSD.org, info@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604080048.CAA01620@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 8, 96 02:48:07 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, J Wunsch once said: > As Nikos Landrou wrote: > > > i have the Diamond Stealth S3 Trio64V+ DRAM Video 2001. > > Every time i start the S3 server the screen goes blank and my > > computer hangs.. > > > Please try to answer my mail as soon as possible... > > Lack of response is not ignorance, but often lack of sufficient > knowledge. I'm afraid that nobody is able to reproduce your problem, > and nobody knows offhand what it might be. :-( I don't have personal knowledge of the Tri64V+, and, as J'org mentioned, I can't reproduce the problem, but here's a bit of a suggestion. (If not, back to the drawing board, 'eh? Or to comp.windows.x.i386unix -- they're a better repository for X problems, because I'd wager your problem isn't FreeBSD specific). It sounds vaguely like a problem I was having with a later-version ATI Mach64 card. (No, not the com4 problem.. that appears to have been fixed in the version I'm using). However, I didn't experience the system hang -- I could still abort X using ctrl-alt-escape, some of the time. Sometimes I had to reboot. The solution in my case was to get the latest beta of the X312 server. From the RELNOTES from the 312D beta, "Fixed detection of Trio64V+ cards." My guess is that this should help with your problem. ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/3.1.2D/FreeBSD-3.0.5/X312DS3.tgz -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."