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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nih-csl!postman From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: XFree86 on Cirrus chipset, anyone? Message-ID: <1993Dec17.125511.20137@alw.nih.gov> Date: 17 Dec 93 12:55:11 GMT Article-I.D.: alw.1993Dec17.125511.20137 Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Lines: 24 On FreeBSD-1.0.2, with syscons (and also pccons), XF86_SVGA -probeonly (and also XF86_Mono -probeonly) generally exits with the keyboard unusable. I tried the trick of making links between /dev/vga and /dev/console, and that allowed it to exit with a prompt, but I still have to kbd_mode -a before it works. The bad part is that xinit always results in a system crash, leaving a partially filled root window with a gray fine weave background, with many random black speckles, possibly suggesting black text which is badly torn up. I've checked the clocks, and probeonly returns the same values with (--) as with (**). I've goobered it so it's trying for 800x600 rather then 1024x768. All this runs on a Compudyne (from CompUSA) 486DX33, built from Taiwanese parts. The SVGA board contains a Cirrus CL-GD5422 chipset, which is mentioned in the docs (but mainly the same as clgd5424). Has anyone gotten XFree86 running on a system with a Cirrus chipset? -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY