Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 22:21:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: New X config quandry... Message-ID: <199608250521.WAA27972@athena.tera.com>
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I've spent this weekend trying to upgrade the last bit of my system from 2.0.5 to 2.1.5. I've installed the X312 libs, bins, docs and man pages. Tried again to install XF86_W32 as my driver...and here have failed. ((I tried to upgrade to version 3.1.2 last May with exactly the same results: nojoy.)) When I boot into xdm my screen in a blur of dark grey `snow'. Trying to cycle into different resolutions gets me nowhere. I've had two thoughts, and maybe someone out there in FBSD-land can offer some ideas. My first thought is that the 3.1.2 W32 driver is broken in soome way compared to the 3.1.1 version. My second thought is that I'm using the *wrong driver*. x86config seems to suggest that I should be using the S3 driver. Since I've been using the W32 driver since last December, this doesn't seem too likely....although maybe I ought to bite the bullet and look at the drivers' code. My video card is a ``Cardex Challenger.'' 32-bit PCI-BUS. It has the Tseng ET4000/W32p with 2MB of VRAM. Another thought is that my present XF86Config file is toooooo far off the real specs for the new driver to work. It did take several days of playing with the V and H sync numbers before it would work. Can anybody clue me in on using xvidtune? Maybe if I get the numbers in /etc/XF86Config set correctly, the new driver will work. Right now, typing xvidtune gives me this error: Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:0.0". Unable to query video extension version Thanks, people. gary
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