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From: scottr@carsinfo.com (Scott Ratliff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X windows and Trident PCI (9440) Video Cards
Date: 14 May 1996 22:14:25 GMT
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Alan Ruedlinger (alan@zed.com.au) 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?

I have the same card and got it to work by downloading the latest
beta SVGA X server from (I believe) www.xfree86.org for freebsd.
It also incorrectly identified my video RAM so I just manually
set it when configuring the X server.

Scott Ratliff
Systems Engineer
CARS Information Systems Corp.
scottr@carsinfo.com