Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:02:20 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: root@kcmain-int.SKW-Inc.Com (Charlie Root) Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <19971024230220.VY14522@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710251622.LAA00247@kcmain-int.SKW-Inc.Com>; from Charlie Root on Oct 25, 1997 11:22:24 -0500 References: <199710251622.LAA00247@kcmain-int.SKW-Inc.Com>
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As Charlie Root wrote: > I have a new PC with a Trident 9680 chipset in it. When I try to start > Xwindows, it switches graphics mode, goes to all black and stops. If I do a > CTRL-ALT-BS, it comes back to my prompt. I thought this had something to do > with the Linear Frame Buffer being mis-aligned. I tried using the config > parameter to disable the frame buffer and it did not help. That's probably something you'd better report to the XFree86 folks (although i'm aware that David Dawes is reading this list as well). Also, i think the TGUI support has been developed a lot lately, so make sure to not use an outdated Xserver for your tests. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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