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#! rnews 1637 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!news From: dennisg <dennisg@seanet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD, XFree and ATI Mach64 Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 16:34:34 -0800 Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32A8BB9A.794BDF32@seanet.com> References: <32a6ba11.2861404@nntpserver.vol.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: dennisg.seanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: gcocc@mbox.vol.it I had the same problem for about a year; now that XF8632 is out however it is not a problem, in fact I run at 1280x1024, in 16bpp at 76hz! and it looks really good. the new X is really easy to setup as well <point and drool tc/tkl stuff> dennisg Giacomo Cocchella wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 2.1 but the XFree Ati Mach64 server doesn't work. > I know there is a problem with newer vga's (a friend of mine had the > same problem with Linux, but using an old Mach64 VGA all works well). > I'd like to know if there is a new release of XFree Mach64 server > working well with all kind of Mach64. Now I'm using the SVga server > and it works fine... I had some problems... the screen was splitted in > some stripes, the same problem I had with some Dos programs using vesa > modes... may be some memory addressing problem. > I'm waiting for an answer.