[aclug-L] Re: XFree86-4.0 problems

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote:

> has anyone else gotten XFree86-4.0 to work?

I haven't messed with it yet.

> again, my card is a S3 ViRGE/GX (STB Nitro 3D), which has always worked
> fine...  in 3.3.x, i used the SVGA server, but in the new 4.0 series, it
> says to use the S3 ViRGE server...  however, X loads fine, it's just the X
> Font Server (xfs) that hangs on bootup...  is there some config i'm
> missing?  anyone else had this problem?

Can you start X from the command line (like getting xdm/kdm/whatever out of the
picture)? I'd start there. Boot with a cmd line login (run level 3 in
/etc/inittab) until you get it working reliably.

Not really much help, but maybe it'll get you going the right direction.

Greg

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