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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree-2.0 & ATI Ultra Date: 31 Mar 94 19:47:27 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 30 Message-ID: <michaelv.765143247@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <mldCnIqqA.1MI@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <mldCnIqqA.1MI@netcom.com> mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter) writes: >Has anyone out there managed to get XFree2.0 working with the ATI >Ultra card? (NOT the ATI Ultra Plus or Ultra Pro, but the vailla 1 >Meg Ultra) When I try "startx" my monitor (NEC 4FG) switches modes >and then the server dies (fatal error -- no real explanation other >than the usual "broken pipe" message). >I am trying to get the Ultra working with either the ATI accelerated >driver (1024x768 non-interlace) or 8514/A (also 1024x768 >non-interlace). Has anyone done this? Or do I have to settle for >640x480 VGA? (I'd really rather not do that....) >BTW, I am running FreeBSD 1.0. I run an old ATI 8514/Ultra (the one that didn't have VGA on-board). Are you using the right driver? My board is a Mach-8 processor, but still gives me excellent performance under X. You should probably be using the old XF86_Mach8 server if you have an older card. If it's the newer Mach-32 processor, use the XF86_Mach32 server. I've had no problems at all using my board with XFree86-2.0 or 2.1 under NetBSD-current. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -