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Date:      Sun, 07 Apr 1996 22:17:58 -0700
From:      "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Dave Andersen <angio@shell.aros.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Please help me with my problem.. 
Message-ID:  <199604080517.WAA01392@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Apr 1996 22:56:33 MDT." <199604080456.WAA10421@shell.aros.net> 

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Yeap, X related questions should go to the xfree86 mailing list
or to comp.windows.x.i386unix 

I suggest just trying XFree86-3.1.2D with the S3 Trio64V+ and 
please do read whatever documentation is available. Usually,
is something like REAMDE.S3

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>>> Dave Andersen said:
 > 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
 > 
 > -- 
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 > 
 > 




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