From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 17:53:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E48B37B416 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.homeunix.net (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id g191r0lR027715; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:53:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:53:23 -0500 From: RoadRunner To: "Bert Hiddink" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm running (on 5 year old Dells) Pentium 200 MMX, 64Mb, S3 Trio+V chipset, Message-Id: <20020208205323.44fafe00.scottro@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3C642BE4.30897.268768@localhost> References: <3C642BE4.30897.268768@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:49:56 -0800 "Bert Hiddink" wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to get a X-Windows Server running with the following configuration:> FreeBSD release-4.4 on 5 year old Dells (Pentium 200 MMX, 64Mb), S3 Trio+V chipset.> > I have installed X-Windows installed several times on other machines with FreeBSD, however, in this > case, I have not had succes so far. I have not give up yet but just would like to know wether > anyone of you has done this succesfully? > Sometimes, (though not always) I've found (especially with XFree 4.x that rather than the correct S3 Trio, if you say S3 Virge (generic) it works perfectly--found this out by accident, after a mistype in xf86config. Since then, I've had success with this a few times--RH and Gentoo Linux as well as FreeBSD. HTH a little Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message