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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X windows and Trident PCI (9440) Video Cards
Date: 10 May 1996 21:47:41 GMT
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alan@zed.com.au (Alan Ruedlinger) wrote:

> Are these cards suitable for FreeBSD?
> 
> Everytime I try to configure X it tells me that my card only has 64k
> ram (when it actually has 1Mb).  Is there a workaround for this?

You need a more recent Xserver.  For XFree86 however, they are only
available as Beta servers by now.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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