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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.wwa.com!jaykuri From: jaykuri@miso.wwa.com (Jason Kuri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ATI Expresion PCI problem.. only 4 clock-rates? Date: 10 Sep 1995 23:44:19 GMT Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services Lines: 45 Message-ID: <42vt8j$obu@sake.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: miso.wwa.com Keywords: ATI PCI DOT-CLOCK X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] First I would like to thank all those who helped me to alleviate my ignorance of Reverse name-service. I have a new problem which is a little bit more difficult. I have been using Xfree86 on a 486dx4/100MHZ with 8M and a VLB ATI Expression card. I've been running in 1024x768x256c without any problems. It still works fine and I am very happy with it. Now, for the problem... A few days ago I set up a Pentium 75Mhz computer, 8M ram and ATI Expression card (PCI). I installed FreeBSD on it (an exact duplicate of the 486's drive (except the Pentiums drive is bigger)) re-compiled the kernel to support the Pentium processor and the PCI bus. Up to this point everything was fine. I went into the XFree configuration program and set it up as I thought it should be (Normal RamDAC, Probe the Clock) only when the 'X -probeonly' returned it had returned only 4 clock-rates. And sure-enough... nothing above 640x480 will come up. I've tried moving the clock-lines over from my 486 but the only thing I get then are modes that don't sync. I've run through the Videomodes doc and set up a mode according to the figures in the ATI book etc... still nothing. Am I doing something drastically wrong (or maybe just a skoshee bit wrong?) I've read everything from the README.ATI to the Videmodes.doc and am at a loss. Is there something I must do in the kernel? Does anyone have a similar system working? Translation: Can anyone help me?!? Supp info: Both ATI cards have 1M installed and both machines are using the Mach64 server. The Monitors are a Magitronics SVGA on the 486 and a Dell Ultrascan on the P75. Both Monitors work (under X) on the 486 and neither of them work (under X) on the Pentium. Also, I can get 1024x768x256 on the pentium in DOS. Thanks in advance, Jay Kuri --- Mind you, I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.