From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 16:40:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA15978 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15964 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00298; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:34:47 -0800 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:34:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Michael D. Corbett" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting X up. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Michael D. Corbett wrote: > I have the freebsd CD-ROM 2.1 release. I have successfully installed one > of the minimal configurations off the novice installation. That being > done, I have gone back and installed the X developer package, to replace > the original "user" install. The video card is a S3 TRIO/64 w/2Mb. of RAM. Okey do..... > The problem seems to be that my X entry is a soft link to the XF86_S3 > server, but the only server in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory is XF86_SVGA... > > Is there something funky in the install since this video card has no external > ramdac or clock chip, or did I fat finger something on the install? I think you missed :-) Yes, you can just untar the XF86_S3 server, rebuild the symlink, config, and enjoy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major