On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Mr. J. Sweet wrote: >Hello All. I have decided to make the change from Windows to FreeBSD. I >am still getting use to the CLI and would like a GUI. I have done the >'xf86cfg' and entered my hardware as follows: Video - S3 ProSavage >KM133 is returned by 'scanpci' - (I selected the prosavage from >'xf86cfg'- 16MB/16384KB) Monitor - KDS Visual Sensation(17") 30-72kHz >Hor and 50-160 Vert Keyboard - Standard 104 US Mouse - /dev/sysmouse > >The issue... when I key in 'startx' or 'XFree86 -xf86config >"/etc/X11/XF86Config"' the X server starts, my screen changes res to >what looks like 1024x786(based on the courser size) and freezes. At no >time is a proper image displayed. The colors are all there it looks to >be 16 bit color. The mouse courser is the only item that shows up OK. >At this point everything freezes if I used "startx". No the mouse still >works if I used "XFree86...." but as with startx all is frozen. I have >to power off the computer to proceed. An error message is displayed >before the GUI comes up but I can't read that fast! > >The OS is FreeBSD 4.7 and the X version is 4.20. I don't know what >other info might be of value...I can provide any info you need to >assist me. > >So and feed back would be greatly appreciated! 1. Get the latest 1.1.26t drivers from here: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html These will be tarred and gzipped (.tgz). Uncompress and untar them in a temporary-work directory ( tar -xzvf filename.tgz) and you will see a file called savage_drv.o Back up your old savage_drv.o (which is probably in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ but check with some FreeBSD gurus if you can't find it there). Copy or move the new savage_drv.o to where the old one was. Make sure that the permissions are the same ("ls -l" to display the permissions "chmod XYZ savage_drv.o" to change them, see "man chmod" for more info). The further information that you can provide to the list will come from whereever FreeBSD stores its X error logs (/var/log/XFree86.0.log ?). If you examine this log for errors it's usually very informative. HTH, Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
