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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Need some help configuring XFree86 2.1.1 under FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 30 Sep 1994 06:36:04 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <36a2tk$71r@ernie.eecs.uic.edu>,
John Scholvin <jscholvi@ernie.eecs.uic.edu> wrote:

>local bus 486dx2. My extremely limited documentation says my video card is a
>"Gateway Rocket" card, which I've determined to be based on a Western
>Digital WD90C33 chip. It has 1024k of VRAM. My monitor is a CrystalScan
         ^^^^^^^

This is a generic XFree86 problem (not really a problem), and not one
specific to FreeBSD. This chip is not supported in XFree86 1.X.  Wait
for the XFree86 3.1 release which should be out RSN which has support
for your chipset.


Nate
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