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Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> There's been a recent thread about Trio64+ cards so i was curious if
> anyone has had any success with Trio64 (without the +) Expert Color video
> cards.  I've got the XF86Config file set up to use the S3 server with
> s3_generic chipset and correct (worked with my previous ISA video card)
> settings for my monitor.  The problem is that running startx doesn't
> display anything at all on the monitor!  No wavvy lines or uncentered
> picture - nothing.  The VC which started X doesn't give any error messages.
> Things look like they have started up normally.
> 
> Does anyone have any hints?  I'm stuck in text mode...  Aargh!  )-:
> 
> Tim.
Try using the probeonly option when starting the server.
It runs the server in "test" mode -- that is it does not start X.
This is described in man XFree86 and in one of the howto documents.
It will list the parameters that the server detects in probing the 
card as well as listing any parts of the configuration file that it 
rejects. For example use:
XF86_S3 -probeonly

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Ian Cowell
icowell@mpce.mq.edu.au
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