From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 05:01:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E5A37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 05:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B410E43FA3 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 05:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h46CDl9g025838; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:13:48 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:57:48 +0200 Received: from 212.190.217.170 ([212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id JS23CH94; Tue, 6 May 2003 13:57:43 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Gary and El Byrnes , Matthew Seaman , CARTER Anthony Organization: Intrasoft Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:02:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030506100549.GC95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030506111959.GF95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <010c01c313c4$67432fc0$0137a8c0@rooter> In-Reply-To: <010c01c313c4$67432fc0$0137a8c0@rooter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305061402.17653.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-131.9 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Window problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:01:39 -0000 How much RAM is on your S3 Trio64? Are you sure you are not trying to get a resolution that your card has not enough RAM for? Try reducing colours to 16-bit and screen resolution to 800x600 and test that... Anthony On Tuesday 06 May 2003 13:41, Gary and El Byrnes wrote: > Hi > > I am so glad I learnt so much already. I rebooted several times and ran > mount -a and it didn't give me any error messages. > > I tried playing around with my system and I can't get X to work. Could > somebody please help me. I am wondering what would be the closest ranges > I should pick to get this to work. I tried a few and they didn't work. > > Thank you in advance. > > Elvira > > Video card: S3 Trio64 > Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 171s - > Horizontal Rate > Vertical Rate > Maximum Pixel Rate 30 ~ 81 KHz > 56 ~ 76 Hz > 135MHz > 1280 x 1024 > VGA 640 x 480 @ 85Hz > SVGA 800 x 600 @ 85 Hz > XGA 1024 x 768 @ 85 Hz > SXGA 1284 x 1024 @ 76Hz > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Matthew Seaman > To: CARTER Anthony > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva ; Gary and El > Byrnes ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:19 PM > Subject: Re: X Window problem