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From: Todd C Miller <millert@cs.Colorado.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pixel skew on S2 X server
Date: 12 Dec 95 18:58:34 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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From the keyboard of windley@lal.cs.byu.edu (Phillip J. Windley):
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD with X on a machine with a Diamond Stealth 64
> Video VRAM card.  The configuration procedure recommended the XF86_S3 video
> server.  
> 
> The server runs fine except that the left 10 pixels of the screen appear on
> the right hand side.  The mouse doesn't know this however, so it marks two
> characters to the right in an xterm, for example.  
> 
> Any idea what I did wrong?  Is this a horizontal sync problem (doesn't seem
> like it) or do I just have something configured funny?

Add the following line to your "Device" section:
    Option      "diamond"

Alternately, you can add an EarlySC line to the "Display" subSection.
See the man pages for XF86_S3 and XF86Config for more info.

 - todd
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Todd C. Miller   Sysadmin--University of Colorado   Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu