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From: dpb@magicnet.net (Dan Benjamin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Trident 9440AGUI and XFree86?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 17:16:17 GMT
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zac@nol.net (Doug Swarin) wrote:

>I've got a Trident 9440AGUI video board and so far I have been
>unsuccessful in getting it to work except with the VGA16 server.

As much as I hate to say it, you are out of luck.

Although the XFree team is working on it, there are not drivers for
that card.  If you had an earlier Trident card, you'd be fine, but
support for that card is nil.

Let me guess, you saw a squashed, enlarged upper-left corner of the
screen, or nothing at all, when you ran X??

My advice, use another card.  I had to swap cards with a few friends.

It was worth the headache in the end.