Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:29:43 +0800 From: "Shoma & Ash Yadav" <shomash@mbox4.singnet.com.sg> To: "Norman C Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>, <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: changing screen res in X Message-ID: <01bd16a0$2c73b1c0$36cd15a5@area51.singnet.com.sg>
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Norman / Alex, I have tried using the S3 server but that bombs out with the following errors ... S3V: PCI: unknown ( please report), ID 0x88c1 rev 0, Linear FB@0x40000000 S3V: Unknown S3 Chipset: chip_id = 0xc1 rev.1 Ash ;) -----Original Message----- From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Shoma & Ash Yadav <shomash@mbox4.singnet.com.sg> Date: Thursday, January 01, 1998 3:29 PM Subject: Re: changing screen res in X >On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 03:15:14PM +0800, Shoma & Ash Yadav wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> The machine has a S3 Vision 864 chipset ( which is what I got from > >I haven't been following this real closely, but have you tried using >the XF86_S3 driver (accelerated driver)? You will need to change the >symbolic link for X. > >[snip] > >> >On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:30:05PM +0800, Shoma & Ash Yadav wrote: >> >> >> >> John, Doug, Alex >> >> Thanx a lot for your replies ... and wish U all a Hap-Hap-Happy New Year >> ... >> >> But ... I am still unable to get my SVGA display to go beyond the 320x200 >> >> that it defaults to. Even after removing the 320x200 entry for 8 bit >> depth >> >> in SVGA definitions in XF86Config . If anyone out there has managed to >> run >> >> the X server on a dell VS 17X monitor attached to a Dell Optiplex 590 cd >> u >> >> pls send me a copy of your XF86Config file. >> > >> >Sorry, I haven't been following this thread. Is this a machine with a >> >NeoMagic chipset? If so, you're out of luck: XFree86 doesn't support >> >it. You should be able to run 640x480 four colours, though. The >> >alternative is the XI Graphics server, which costs Real Money. >> > >> >If that's not the problem (i.e. you have a different chip set), let's >> >see the output of the startx command. >> > >> >Greg > >-- >Regards, >Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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