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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: df4889@atlas.ccm.edu (David M. Fogarty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeX86 setup problem Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 15:52:01 GMT Organization: Francosteel Corp. Lines: 53 Message-ID: <4cu39i$b6p@news.ios.com> References: <4c7f3k$gu4@feenix.metronet.com> <4c98o7$9si@agate.berkeley.edu> <30EC176A.65B6@earthlink.net> Reply-To: df4889@atlas.ccm.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-44.ts-5.nyc.idt.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Fabian Schonholz <fessex@earthlink.net> wrote: >Hi. >1) I appologize if this issue has come up before. I understand the >anoyance that a rpeted question may cause. >2) I just installed FreeBSD in my PC and it installed beautifully, >however, I am having problems runing X11R6. I have a monitor that >runs at 100MHz with 30-64KHz hsync and 50-100KHz vsync. My card is >an ATI WinTurbo with 2MB VRAM and the MACH-64 chipset. I used >xf86config and pretty much exausted most if the local convinations >and some of the not so logical too. Any help will be much >appreciated. >Please e-mail me, I will sumarize later. >Fabian >fessex@earthlink.net Hey there... I am a bit new myself but perhaps I can help you out. I have a very similar (seems exact actually) video subsystem and was able to get X11R6 working fine. I too have a ATI WinTurbo with 2Mb Dram on board and the Mach64 accelerator. My monitor is a Mag DXF15 which has exactly the same sync rates as those you listed. I am running FreeBSD version 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM (January 1996 version) and used the Mach64 accelerated driver under the novice install XWindows menu. I disabled the standard SVGA Server there since I was not sure if it would conflict. When I ran the config program to configure XF86Config I just punched in what I had and everything worked fine (I put in a custom line for the hsync values as I was not sure if the 64.3KHz would make a difference (I think I have used it under Linux 1.2.8 when I ran it but I decided not to chance it here). In any case, X11R6 is up and running beautifully and I have resolutions available from 320 x 200 to 1280 x 1024. They all are accessible through <ctrl> - <alt> - <+> and <-> hotkeys. If you like I can send you a copy of my XF86Config file so you can see what is different from yours. Let me know a little more specifically what kind of problems your are having and maybe I can help out. Good luck to you!! -Dave The Lord of Chaos