Hi,

I recently installed v. 3.5 on a Tulip dt5/166: Pentium/MMX, 166 MHz, 32
MB RAM, 10 GB harddisk, S3 Trio64V2/DX videocard. I also installed gnome
from ports. Took a while, but works.
Now, when I start X, I only get half screen. No matter the resolution I
choose, it's 640x480, only lower half visible. Upper half works ok,
because I can activate the menues.
I've run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config a few times, I've edited
/etc/X11/XF86Config. No change.
BTW, I acted the same as I did on FreeBSD (other hardware, same gnome).
No problems.

Can somebody point me to a solution?

Thanks

Huub

On 2004-06-17, Huub <v.niekerk@freeler.nl> wrote:
>
> I recently installed v. 3.5 on a Tulip dt5/166: Pentium/MMX, 166 MHz, 32
> MB RAM, 10 GB harddisk, S3 Trio64V2/DX videocard. I also installed gnome
> from ports. Took a while, but works.
> Now, when I start X, I only get half screen. No matter the resolution I
> choose, it's 640x480, only lower half visible. Upper half works ok,
> because I can activate the menues.

I have the same S3 card.
And I had the same problem. I didn't use GNOME though.
I think the cause of the problem is that the chip set is not supported by
the version of X11 that comes with OBSD-3.5.
It uses the default VGA driver at 320x320 mode.
I tried to change the settings in the XF86Config files without any
luck. I swapped it with a Millennium II card and everthings works OK.

HTH,
Zoong

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:33:35 +0200, Huub wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently installed v. 3.5 on a Tulip dt5/166: Pentium/MMX, 166 MHz, 32
> MB RAM, 10 GB harddisk, S3 Trio64V2/DX videocard. I also installed gnome
> from ports. Took a while, but works.
> Now, when I start X, I only get half screen. No matter the resolution I
> choose, it's 640x480, only lower half visible. Upper half works ok,
> because I can activate the menues.

There is no problem running X on that display adapter. I have the same
integrated into the motherboard of a Compaq 4000S 233MMX and it works
well.

> I've run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config a few times, I've edited
> /etc/X11/XF86Config. No change.

You get a proper XF86Config file by executing

# XFree86 -configure

then edit the /root/XF86Config-new file to provide the proper HorizSync
and VertRefresh values, DefaultDepth and Modes. Then move the file to
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

However, you are fooling yourself that you can run a desktop environment
which requires a minimum of 128 MB in 32 MB of memory.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:33:35 +0200, Huub wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I recently installed v. 3.5 on a Tulip dt5/166: Pentium/MMX, 166 MHz, 32
>>MB RAM, 10 GB harddisk, S3 Trio64V2/DX videocard. I also installed gnome
>>from ports. Took a while, but works.
>>Now, when I start X, I only get half screen. No matter the resolution I
>>choose, it's 640x480, only lower half visible. Upper half works ok,
>>because I can activate the menues.
>
>
> There is no problem running X on that display adapter. I have the same
> integrated into the motherboard of a Compaq 4000S 233MMX and it works
> well.
>
>
>>I've run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config a few times, I've edited
>>/etc/X11/XF86Config. No change.
>
>
> You get a proper XF86Config file by executing
>
> # XFree86 -configure
>
> then edit the /root/XF86Config-new file to provide the proper HorizSync
> and VertRefresh values, DefaultDepth and Modes. Then move the file to
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>
> However, you are fooling yourself that you can run a desktop environment
> which requires a minimum of 128 MB in 32 MB of memory.
>
Ouch, didnt realize that. Then I better keep it as a console station.
Thanks.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:05:11 +0200, Huub wrote:

> Dave Uhring wrote:

>> However, you are fooling yourself that you can run a desktop environment
>> which requires a minimum of 128 MB in 32 MB of memory.
>>
> Ouch, didnt realize that. Then I better keep it as a console station.
> Thanks.

Having a properly configured XWindows available is still useful since you
can put up several xterms at one time and copy/paste from one to another.
The fvwm which comes with OpenBSD is quite adequate to the task and is
resource conservative.