From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 06:04:24 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 5F9FA37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 06:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF07243FE3 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 06:04:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boxend@swbell.net) Received: from 3iron.chipshot.net (HELO 22bsh) (boxend@swbell.net@65.174.154.11 with login) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 May 2003 13:04:23 -0000 From: boxend@swbell.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 08:07:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3EB76D40.10194.16AF5F@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 13:04:24 -0000 I have a S3 trio 3d/2x video card, the S3virge driver would not work for this card, but it shows as supported. I used the vesa driver. from the /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "Device" #### Vesa option ##### Option "ShadowFB" "boolean" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" VendorName "S3 Inc." BoardName "86c368 [Trio 3D/2X]" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection 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 -- "Dovie'andi se Tovya Sagain"