From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 5 8:40:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F92537BA5E for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nmanisca@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19738; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:39:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from dog ([198.82.106.223]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with SMTP id <0FQY00D35JMGBK@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:39:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 11:39:07 -0500 From: nm Subject: Re: No cigar with 3.9.18 :( X-Sender: nmanisca@mail.vt.edu To: Doug Rabson Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin Message-id: <3.0.32.20000305113906.00c63200@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:11 PM 3/5/00 +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: >On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, nm wrote: > snip > >Thats right. All the hardware drivers are loadable (look in >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules). > >> >> Next, I ran startx and the screen pretended to change >> video modes, filled up with random color, random >> characters (garbage), waited 3 seconds, pretended to >> change modes again, and returned me to a prompt where >> all I only see about every other character and things >> are screwy :( >> >> Where did I go wrong? > >Not sure. At this point, the only hardware I know works well is MGA (which >I'm using right now). What kind of graphics card are you using? BTW, thanks for xfpatch :) S3 Virge (86C325). When I start X (8 bit depth), I see the following error printed: Symbol VErrorF from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a is unresolved! I believe Andrew Gallatin did get XFree86 3.9.18 running on his AS200, but I have no idea as to what video card he was using. Nick Maniscalco nmanisca@vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message