X Window problem

[Gary and El Byrnes]

I actually don't know. I tried searching www.fcc.gov for it but no data. I tried reducing to what you suggested. The screen rapidly flashes from the command prompt to black. When I hit ctrl+alt+del I can see a message "getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs". ?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: CARTER Anthony 
  To: Gary and El Byrnes ; Matthew Seaman ; CARTER Anthony 
  Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva ; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:02 PM
  Subject: Re: X Window problem


  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