From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 18:24:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA05474 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 18:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05461 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 18:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA24851; Wed, 8 May 1996 10:59:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605080129.KAA24851@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: X with block characters To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:59:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Khetan Gajjar" at May 7, 96 02:18:22 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar stands accused of saying: > > I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1 R on a Pentium 133 with 24 mb of RAM, > with a Adaptec 6360 chipset card, with a Seagate Barracuda and a NEC > CD-ROM drive (both SCSI). Also in the machine is a Diamond Stealth 32 SE > (with the s3 trio chipset), and a SMC network card. Either you got the details of the SCSI card wrong, or you've made a serious purchasing mistake. The 6360 is totally inappropriate for such a system. > The problem is that when you run X, all the fonts have blocks / are blocks. > The screen is basically un-readable. Everything else works fine (console, > etc). I have tried both the S3 Trio card def and the Diamond Stealh def. > I have also tried the vga, svga and s3 servers and have had no joy. Sounds like you have a card with a Trio-64V+; grab the 3.1.2D betaversion S3 X server from the XFree people and try that. > Khetan Gajjar -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[