Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:24:40 -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.3.96.980418012228.2575O-100000@fanfic.org> In-Reply-To: <199804172345.SAA05374@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Glenn Johnson 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?
|
| It's the driver. Use the XF86_SVGA driver instead.
Ok.. I tried to do things the simple way. I deleted the symlink from X to
XF86_S3V and created a new symlink to XF86_SVGA and tried to restart X.
It failed immediately. If I put back the link to XF86_S3V it works fine.
What am I doing wrong?
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