more specific than "Re: Contents of Newbie digest..." --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "george gittins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:15:18 -0700 charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: [Newbie]how can i find out that version of x Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i having a lot of trouble installing windows im using the video card s3 trio 64v+ however there is a lot of inofrmation that xconfiguratior asks me , just wanted to know if its supported with the version that i have and how do you check the version? --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:03:20 -0600 From: Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]how can i find out that version of x Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'X -version' should do it. --Daniel On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:15:18PM -0700, george gittins wrote: > i having a lot of trouble installing windows im using the video card s3 > trio 64v+ > however there is a lot of inofrmation that xconfiguratior asks me , just > wanted to know if its supported with the version that i have and how do you > check the version? --__--__-- Message: 4 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Oliver Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13 Sep 2001 01:47:11 +0200 Subject: [Newbie]fbdev (was: total system-crash ... ) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sprague, IT3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the fbdev driver uses absolutely no capabilities of the video card except > those exposed by the fbdev API. Thus, any acceleration/video overlay has to > be done at the kernel level. That is, using fbdev with vesafb results in > XF86Setup i=20 get a white and back screen, on which i can see cursor movement,=20 </FO Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed freebsd 4.3 and im running Xfree86 version 3.3.6. I installed it from the ports and configure the video card "s3 trio 64V+ . however when i try to run startx i get the following message execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (errno 2) _X11Transsocket UNIXConnect: Cant connect :errno = 2 i have the path to /usr/X11R6/bin Xfree86 and in the /etc/Xfree86config also the file .xinitrc has the following lines: exec fvwm what can be wrong? _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
