From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 22:18:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA02621 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02612 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA01392; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:17:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199604080517.WAA01392@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Dave Andersen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please help me with my problem.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Apr 1996 22:56:33 MDT." <199604080456.WAA10421@shell.aros.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 22:17:58 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > -- > 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'." > >