Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:59:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X with block characters Message-ID: <199605080129.KAA24851@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507141538.18151O-100000@ian.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at May 7, 96 02:18:22 pm
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Khetan Gajjar stands accused of saying: > > I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1 R on a Pentium 133 with 24 mb of RAM, > with a Adaptec 6360 chipset card, with a Seagate Barracuda and a NEC > CD-ROM drive (both SCSI). Also in the machine is a Diamond Stealth 32 SE > (with the s3 trio chipset), and a SMC network card. Either you got the details of the SCSI card wrong, or you've made a serious purchasing mistake. The 6360 is totally inappropriate for such a system. > The problem is that when you run X, all the fonts have blocks / are blocks. > The screen is basically un-readable. Everything else works fine (console, > etc). I have tried both the S3 Trio card def and the Diamond Stealh def. > I have also tried the vga, svga and s3 servers and have had no joy. Sounds like you have a card with a Trio-64V+; grab the 3.1.2D betaversion S3 X server from the XFree people and try that. > Khetan Gajjar -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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