Problems with ProSavage video card

Adam Maas mykroft at explosive.mail.net
Tue Apr 8 16:17:48 PDT 2003


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Problems with ProSavage video card


>
> Hi all,
>
> I am installing FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE on a new box just built for me.  It
has
> an onboard S3 ProSavage video board that I cannot get to work with XFree86
> 4 at all.  I keep getting complaints about no screens, no devices, and so
> on.  And my board is not listed in the list for XF86config.  Any
> suggestions?  Or could someone with a similar card send me their config?
>
> Besides this issue, my PS/2 mouse only gets a jerky response and then
shows
> a bunch of mouse error log messages on tty0.  Any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance for any help at all
>
>
> NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed.  Thanks.
>
> jm
> --

Upgrade to XFree86 4.3, there are binaries for FreeBSD 4.x at
www.xfree86.org.

Adam



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