Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06:51 -0000 From: "James Green" <james@stealthnet.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Getting an S3 Savage graphics card working in 4.5 Message-ID: <IGEPIJPNHPMGCANGLCBHCEHFCBAA.james@stealthnet.co.uk>
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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 <file> 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
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