From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Dec 12 22:58:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA25449 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:58:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA25444; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:58:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00261; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:58:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Curt Finch cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, dwex@xfree86.org Subject: Re: s3 virge hosedown In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Curt Finch wrote: > SuperProbe Version 2.11 (Oct 20 1996) > (c) Copyright 1993,1994 by David Wexelblat > > First video: Super-VGA > Chipset: S3 ViRGE (PCI Probed) > Memory: 2048 Kbytes > RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC > (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) That's odd. > > XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) > Release Date: Oct 24 1996 > Operating System: FreeBSD 2.1.5 > Configured drivers: > S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) > s3_ViRGE > > The above is my freebsd configuration and my XFree86 config. > xinit or startx crashes the machine immediatly after blackening > the screen. Do you have SIO2 or sio3 enabled? > I've read in this newsgroup and elsewhere that this Xserver is still beta. > I have a Number Nine Reality_332 card in my DELL 200mhz PPro PC. That's quite true. > I'm willing to hack the code to get it to work, but I can't seem to find > kdbg, don't know who in the FreeBSD community to talk to regarding the > code, and am not sure which piece of the umpteen zillion megs of source > I need to download to resolve this. I'd love to make this work. You should contact XFree86; FreeBSD does not do anything for XFree other than portability, of which this isn't a problem most likely. Contact questions@xfree86.org, and in the meantime keep an eye on ftp://ftp.xfree86.org for any new betas. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major