Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:38:23 +1000 From: "Gary and El Byrnes" <elgaz@iprimus.com.au> To: "CARTER Anthony" <a.carter@cordis.lu>, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Window problem Message-ID: <013001c313cc$6243c310$0137a8c0@rooter> References: <20030506100549.GC95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030506111959.GF95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <010c01c313c4$67432fc0$0137a8c0@rooter> <200305061402.17653.a.carter@intrasoft.lu>
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I actually don't know. I tried searching www.fcc.gov for it but no data. = I tried reducing to what you suggested. The screen rapidly flashes from = the command prompt to black. When I hit ctrl+alt+del I can see a message = "getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs". ? ----- Original Message -----=20 From: CARTER Anthony=20 To: Gary and El Byrnes ; Matthew Seaman ; CARTER Anthony=20 Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:02 PM Subject: Re: X Window problem How much RAM is on your S3 Trio64? Are you sure you are not trying to = get a=20 resolution that your card has not enough RAM for? Try reducing colours to 16-bit and screen resolution to 800x600 and = test=20 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 <mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> > To: CARTER Anthony <mailto:a.carter@cordis.lu> > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mailto:mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> ; Gary and = El > <mailto:elgaz@iprimus.com.au> Byrnes ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:19 PM > Subject: Re: X Window problem
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