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Date:      Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:35:58 -0600 (CST)
From:      Curt Finch <curt@tkg.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        dwex@xfree86.org
Subject:   s3 virge hosedown
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.91.961212113422.44032D-100000@spycam.tkg.com>

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Please help cause I am, as they say, hosed.


SuperProbe Version 2.11 (Oct 20 1996)
        (c) Copyright 1993,1994 by David Wexelblat <dwex@xfree86.org>

First video: Super-VGA
        Chipset: S3 ViRGE (PCI Probed)
        Memory:  2048 Kbytes
        RAMDAC:  Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
                 (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))

XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100)
Release Date: Oct 24 1996
Operating System: FreeBSD 2.1.5 
Configured drivers:
  S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
      s3_ViRGE

The above is my freebsd configuration and my XFree86 config.
xinit or startx crashes the machine immediatly after blackening 
the screen.

I've read in this newsgroup and elsewhere that this Xserver is still beta. 
I have a Number Nine Reality_332 card in my DELL 200mhz PPro PC. 

I'm willing to hack the code to get it to work, but I can't seem to find 
kdbg, don't know who in the FreeBSD community to talk to regarding the 
code, and am not sure which piece of the umpteen zillion megs of source 
I need to download to resolve this.  I'd love to make this work.  

Any advice on how I should proceed would be very much appreciated.

TIATIA

without X, i am not a real man...

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