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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: X86mono driving Everex EV673 in 386BSD - possible? Message-ID: <1992Oct13.162935.5485@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Oct13.062759.4976@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:29:35 GMT Lines: 24 Warren Toomey (wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au) wrote: : I have an old non SVGA card, an Everex EV673, I'd like to run it in : 640x480x2-bit until I can get a new card/monitor. I've installed XFree86 : under 386BSD (with kernel patches), and set up a basic vga2 Xconfig. : When I start X386mono, it gives up immediately with a list of possible : drivers, indicating that it can't recognise my card?! I force a chipset : "generic", but that makes no difference. Does anybody have an idea on how : to fix this problem. The card has 512K, not that it needs more than 128K. : It will help if you enclose your error messages. I have just finished configuring for a mono display. In fact I'm typing on a mono dispaly now. The problem is that vga2 driver only uses 64K no matter how much RAM you have. Actually the error messae tells you that. The config shuld not exceed 800x600 virtual size, same thing with your modes. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet