Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:27:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Tenn <dstenn@fanfic.org> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 ViRGE/DX w/ 4Mb RAM, XFree86 3.3.2 and xdm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417192557.2575B-100000@fanfic.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417190613.2575A-100000@fanfic.org>
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Dennis Tenn wrote:
| I've been experiencing a problem with the above combination on my computer
| and would like to know if I'm the only one and if there is a solution.
|
| I have a P166 w/ 128Mb RAM and the above hardware. When I start up my
| computer in xdm the initial screen comes up perfectly. I login and if I
| exit my X-window session I get a screen full of virtical red lines and my
| console locks up. This also happened to a friend who is running XFree86
| 3.3.2 with the same card using Linux while I'm using it with FreeBSD
| 3.0-current. We both are using the XF86_S3V accellerated driver. We both
| would like to use xdm but this problem doesn't let us. Is this a problem
| with the driver or the hardware, ie. the S3 ViRGE/DX video card?
I should mention that if I don't start xdm but go to a console prompt and
startx I can leave and startx without problems. It just happens with xdm.
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