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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-server.ncren.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail From: camattin@unity.ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86 and ATI Mach64 PCI Date: 15 Oct 1996 03:30:52 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <53v0hc$4vo@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <01bbba1b$14f674c0$86b75ccf@vancouver> NNTP-Posting-Host: heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Frank G. Ficnar (fficnar@netcom.ca) wrote: : Hi, : : I have a PCI ATI Mach64 (2Mb VRAM) and I am having no luck getting XFree86 : to work with the XF86_Mach64 driver. I cannot even describe what it is I : am seeing when I startup the X server. It's just a black & white screen of : garbage. I've tried the XF86_SVGA driver and that one works fine ... for : the standard SVGA settings. I cannot use any setting that requires more : than 1Mb of video memory (as the SVGA driver says) without the display : going wacky. : : Is anybody out there using the XF86_Mach64 driver with a PCI ATI Mach64? I : am using the version of XFree86 that comes with FreeBSD 2.0.5 (I don't know : the exact version at the moment). Here are a few more of my system specs : just in case ... Grab XFree86 3.1.2G. That was the only saviour for me to get my Grafix Xpression (ATI 2meg PCI) card to work happily. [plus that version of xfree86 has a much nicer config program. :)] -Chris -- Chris Mattingly | My views are not necessarily those of my employers camattin@ncsu.edu | NCSU/ITECS [ECO] | "Good programmers write good code; great Systems Programmer | programmers 'borrow' good code." -- Mike Gancarz