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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!news.utdallas.edu!corpgate!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!bnr.co.uk!bt!usenet From: barclaac@boat.bt.co.uk (Alex Barclay) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: X won't run !! Date: 30 Sep 1994 15:10:12 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 29 Message-ID: <36h9ok$2bt@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> References: <36cs03$81o@rigel.cs.pdx.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.146.220.42 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.1 In article <36cs03$81o@rigel.cs.pdx.edu>, jdt@cs.pdx.edu (jeffrey d tesch) says: > > >Hi, > >I have just installed FreeBSD 1.1 and am trying to install XFree86 2.1.1. >When I start the X server, it dies almost right away. > >Running: > xinit >& xinit.err > >produced the following xinit.err file: >(--) Trident chipset version: 0x33 (TVGA8900CL/D) >(--) VGA256: chipset: tvga8900cl >(--) VGA256: videoram: 1024k >VGA256: Too little memory for mode 1280x1024i > Forgive me if I'm wrong here but doesn't 1280x1024 require 1280KB video ram on the board. Try a lesser resolution like 1024x768 Hope this helps Alex.