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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!pk From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Cirrus chipset drivers for XFree86? Message-ID: <1993Mar18.143032.20122@cs.few.eur.nl> Date: 18 Mar 93 14:30:32 GMT References: <FRASER_H.101.0@eismv3.dofasco.ca> Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam Lines: 19 In <FRASER_H.101.0@eismv3.dofasco.ca> FRASER_H@eismv3.dofasco.ca (Hugh Fraser) writes: >I've got a 486/33 with 8meg memory running 386BSD and XFree86. However, I've >got the Cirrus chipset vidoe card, which doesn't seem to be supported by >XFree86 except as a generic monochrome 640x480 card. Question is, is there a >source for additional video drivers (hopefully the Cirrus chipset)? I am waiting for Cirrus to reply to my request for a Technical Reference for their chips. Meanwhile, from various scraps of documentation found on the net, I've managed to get it going in color mode (1024x768). There are still problems with some bitblt operations: things mess up when moving windows around on the screen and while scrolling in an xterm. I will not pursue this matter until I can get my hands on a proper description of the Cirrus register set. -pk