Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:44:41 +0800 From: "Happy" <kuishin@singnet.com.sg> To: <FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Video Card Problem Message-ID: <000a01c1c9a2$26e7e0a0$a8fd7dcb@ajax>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1C9E5.34CF9E40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I am a new user of FreeBSD. I just finished intalling FreeBSD 4.0 on = my system. However, there seems to be a video card compatibility = problem. When i booted into the K desktop,there are icons displayed but = the captions cannot be seen. This goes the same for the windows and = menus where icons are visible but with illegable captions.Hence the GUI = is unusable. =20 I have a S3 trio 32/64 PCI (732/764) video card. During = installation,when i wanted to configer the X server,this msg appeared = when i clicked on the S3 trio 64 option on the list. It said: =20 =20 "The server required by the card is not installed. Pls abort,install = the S3 server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 and run this program again." I = have tried typing this at command line interface but to no avail. Can you please advice on how to install the S3 server or are there = other methods to overcome this problem? Thanks! = Yours faithfully, = A new user ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1C9E5.34CF9E40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> I am a new user of FreeBSD. I = just finished=20 intalling FreeBSD 4.0 on my system. However, there seems to be a video = card=20 compatibility problem. When i booted into the K desktop,there are icons=20 displayed but the captions cannot be seen. This goes the same for the = windows=20 and menus where icons are visible but with illegable captions.Hence the = GUI is=20 unusable.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> I have a S3 trio 32/64 PCI = (732/764) video=20 card. During installation,when i wanted to configer the X server,this = msg=20 appeared when i clicked on the S3 trio 64 option on the list. It=20 said: </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> "The server required by the card = is not=20 installed. Pls abort,install the S3 server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 and = run=20 this program again." I have tried typing this at command line interface = but to=20 no avail.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> Can you please advice on how to = install the=20 S3 server or are there other methods to overcome this problem?=20 Thanks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> = =20 = =20 = =20 = =20 = =20 = =20 Yours faithfully,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT=20 size=3D2> &nbs= p;  = ; = &= nbsp; &n= bsp; &nb= sp; &nbs= p; A=20 new user</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1C9E5.34CF9E40-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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