From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 3:58: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-relay.noc.dsvr.net (smtp-relay.noc.dsvr.net [212.69.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE92137B41D for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 03:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.69.208.113] (helo=stealthnet.co.uk) by smtp-relay.noc.dsvr.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16aalo-00003z-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06:44 +0000 Received: from JAMES (host213-121-66-81.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.66.81]) by stealthnet.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g1CB6WV17501 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06:35 GMT From: "James Green" To: Subject: Getting an S3 Savage graphics card working in 4.5 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06:51 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all We have a new machine which we installed 4.5 on. During installation we did not know which graphics card was installed and thus we chose Super VGA standard. We found out it is a S3 Savage4 on-board chipset (Gigabyte Athlon mobo). We now have trouble making this work. We have gotten to the stage where typing 'startx' doesn't do very much. Here's what we did: 1. Went into the graphical XFree86 3.3 configurator. Clicked the 'S3' server button and were told to install the XF86_S3 binary server. We aborted. 2. Went back into sysinstall post configuration and installed XF4 from the CD. 3. Performed a XFree86 -configure as root. This appeared to work and generated a config file in /root. 4. Ran the suggested XFree86 -xf86config as root and the box hung. Couldn't ssh in from the lan so had to reboot 5. Rebooted, copied the new config file to /etc/XF86Config and, as a normal user, ran startx. 6. This generated an error. Something about not having any available sockets, perhaps an X server was already running. Checked this and there wasn't one. It was suggested to rm -rf /tmp/.X11* which we did, and it came up with the same error. 7. Was suggested to install Xwrapper from ports. Did this fine, and symlinked X -> Xwrapper. Did startx again and the box hung. 8. Restarted, and startx again as a normal user. Got nothing. Nothing whatsoever happened. Did troff on Xwrapper and got nothing in the log at all. So, any suggestions? The kernel security level is -1. Help! Many thanks in advance. -- James Green Developer Stealthnet.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message