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From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: XFree86 on Cirrus chipset, anyone?
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Date: 17 Dec 93 12:55:11 GMT
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On FreeBSD-1.0.2, with syscons (and also pccons), XF86_SVGA -probeonly
(and also XF86_Mono -probeonly) generally exits with the keyboard
unusable.  I tried the trick of making links between /dev/vga and
/dev/console, and that allowed it to exit with a prompt, but I still
have to kbd_mode -a before it works.

The bad part is that xinit always results in a system crash, leaving a
partially filled root window with a gray fine weave background, with
many random  black speckles, possibly suggesting black text which is
badly torn up.

I've checked the clocks, and probeonly returns the same values with
(--) as with (**).  I've goobered it so it's trying for 800x600 rather
then 1024x768.

All this runs on a Compudyne (from CompUSA) 486DX33, built from
Taiwanese parts.  The SVGA board contains a Cirrus CL-GD5422 chipset,
which is mentioned in the docs (but mainly the same as clgd5424).

Has anyone gotten XFree86 running on a system with a Cirrus chipset?

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