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From: hhanemaa@cs.ruu.nl (Harm Hanemaaijer)
Subject: Re: Patched XF86_S3 binary for FreeBSD 2.0R?
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Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:14:52 GMT
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In <3c7joa$i3k@info.usuhs.mil> dobson@info.usuhs.mil (Michael Dobson) writes:

>Has anyone compiled the patched XFree86-3.1 S3 driver for FreeBSD
>2.0-RELEASE yet?  The current one totaly locks up my IBM PS/Value Point 486
>system with an 805 rev C S3 chip and ATT20C491-11 Ramdac on the motherboard
>(VLB).  I can use the VGA16 driver successfully but haven't figured out the
>correct XF86Config for the SVGA driver yet.

The patched version is not very likely to fix this problem; it looks
like a linear framebuffer detection problem. Try Option "nolinear".