X Window problem

CARTER Anthony a.carter at cordis.lu
Tue May 6 05:01:39 PDT 2003


How much RAM is on your S3 Trio64? Are you sure you are not trying to get a 
resolution that your card has not enough RAM for?

Try reducing colours to 16-bit and screen resolution to 800x600 and test 
that...

Anthony

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 13:41, Gary and El Byrnes wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am so glad I learnt so much already. I rebooted several times and ran
> mount -a and it didn't give me any error messages.
>
> I tried playing around with my system and I can't get X to work. Could
> somebody please help me. I am wondering what would be the closest ranges
> I should pick to get this to work. I tried a few and they didn't work.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Elvira
>
> Video card: S3 Trio64
> Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 171s -
> Horizontal Rate
> Vertical Rate
> Maximum Pixel Rate	 30 ~ 81 KHz
> 56 ~ 76 Hz
> 135MHz
> 1280 x 1024
> VGA 640 x 480 @ 85Hz
> SVGA 800 x 600 @ 85 Hz
> XGA 1024 x 768 @ 85 Hz
> SXGA 1284 x 1024 @ 76Hz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthew Seaman <mailto:m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> To: CARTER Anthony <mailto:a.carter at cordis.lu>
> Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mailto:mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx>  ; Gary and El
> <mailto:elgaz at iprimus.com.au> Byrnes ; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> <mailto:freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:19 PM
> Subject: Re: X Window problem


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