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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!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!karon.dynas.se!karon.dynas.se!not-for-mail From: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree and clgd5428? (invalid chipset?) Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:48:01 +0100 Organization: Dynasoft AB Message-ID: <5g8m11$psr@spirit.dynas.se> References: <5fukbs$dit@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <33255EA9.2825@juno.com> <33278D5E.45808B6A@gte.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: spirit.dynas.se Lines: 45 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36967 gary brant <gbrant@gte.net> writes: >Jeff Moen wrote: >> >> Jari Kokko wrote: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I tried to get X running on my newly installed FreeBSD system. >> > Downloaded latest binary, and ran XF86Setup. Everything seems to go >> > right, but when I start to start X with startx, I get: >> > >> > SVGA: 'clgd5428' is an invalid chipset >> > >> > and I get the same message from X -probeonly >> > >> > I can't figure out why it says that! The server lists clgd5428 as a >> > supported chipset, and my card says it is one in writing, as well as >> > the DOS CLMODE utility. >> > >> >> I have had similar problems with various Cirrus Logic adapters (ie. >> 5429,5434). Although maybe not the mode you would like they all seem to >> work well if you run XF86Setup and select VGA16 for the card setup. >> Although I have not spent much effort doing so I have been unable to get >> them working correctly using the BSD cirrus servers. >I have this card & just typed X -probeonly & got no such complaints. >Perhaps you are using the wrong server?? I use XF86_SVGA, it works >great - 256 colors at 1024x768. Which version of FreeBSD are you >running? I am still running 2.1.6 & XFree86 3.1.2. We've seen this too (clgd5428 / XFree 3.2 / FBSD 2.1.6). The solution, without any further investigation, was to grab the latest beta of the SVGA server instead. It seems to work. My (possibly entirely inaccurate) guess is that someone goofed when building the XFree 3.2 distribution, as I've had previous versions of XFree running with this (same physial) card. Just my $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_____________________________________________mikko@dynas.se DynaSoft