Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:34:33 -0700 From: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Desperately trying to get X to work... Message-ID: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB14DDC3B7@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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Hi all, I am trying to get X to work on my computer, but I am not having much luck. I have read the book (The Complete FreeBSD), I have read the errata, I have downloaded and used the new chapter 8 of the book, I have looked at past list archives....All with no luck. Basically what happens is when I configure and run X, I hear my monitor click and then go black. I stays that way until I kill X, and cycle my monitor off and on. I have an IBM ValuePoint computer (i486/66 DX2) with built-in S3 video. SuperProbe reports: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 86C805, C-step (Port Probed) Memory: 1024 Kbytes RAMDAC: AT&T 20C490 15/16/24-bit DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) (programmable for 6/8-bit wide lookup tables) For what it is worth, Win 95 reports that I have S3 video and that the chipset is 801/805 Rev E. (Sidebar: In windows I can regularly use 800x600 and 16-bit color with no problems). I have verified on the monitor manufacturer's web site what the horizontal and vertical refresh rates are, so that part should be OK (it's not in the monitors database). When I configured X, it only presents me with three chipset options for S3. Those are mmio_928, newmmio, and s3_generic. No 86C805! Because of all of the "deadly warnings" about frying monitors AND chipsets, I have only selected s3_generic so far. I have configured the memory for 1MB, and the RAMDAC (whatever that is...) to att20c490, but I am not sure about the rest of the stuff that SuperProbe spit out, like ...15/16/24-bit DAC... and the stuff about lookup tables. I assume it has to do with color depth. Finally, I also did not choose any clock chip support since SuperProbe did not tell me any thing about clock chips. I had the config script run X -probeonly to put the clock lines into the configuration. When I run startx, my monitor clicks, and goes black. As an experiment, I reconfigured X to use the SVGA server instead of S3 and I can get that to work in 8-bit color mode only (looks _real_ ugly). As soon as I try and use the SVGA configuration with something more than 8-bit color...you guessed it, click-and-black. Am I suppose to use mmio_928 or newmmio? How do I know which one? Will it hurt my computer if I try and it is wrong? What else do I need to look at? Thanks, and please be sure to cc directly to me since I don't subscribe to FreeBSD-questions because of the high volume. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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