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From: "Frank G. Ficnar" <fficnar@netcom.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: XFree86 and ATI Mach64 PCI
Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:01:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom Canada
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X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Oct 14 6:01:18 PM EDT 1996
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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 ...
P166, 32Mb RAM, SB16-SCSI2 (ISA), SCSI Plextor 4x, SCSI Sony 4x, 2 540Mb
IDE Maxtor, 2.1Gb IDE Western Digital, NEC Multisync XV17+, FreeBSD 2.0.5.
Here are the relevant sections of my XF86Config file ...
# NEC MultiSync XV17+
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NEC XV17+"
VendorName "NEC"
ModelName "XV17+"
Bandwidth 85MHz
HorizSync 31-65kHz
VertRefresh 55-100Hz
Mode "640x480"
DotClock 25
HTimings 640 672 760 800
VTimings 480 491 493 525
EndMode
Mode "800x600"
DotClock 36
HTimings 800 840 896 1024
VTimings 600 601 603 625
EndMode
Mode "1024x768"
DotClock 80
HTimings 1024 1072 1176 1344
VTimings 768 771 777 806
EndMode
Mode "1152x864"
DotClock 80
HTimings 1152 1176 1234 1464
VTimings 864 870 877 905
EndMode
Mode "1280x1024"
DotClock 110
HTimings 1280 1320 1424 1720
VTimings 1024 1024 1029 1066
EndMode
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Mach64"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Mach64"
VideoRam 2048
# IOBase 0x2EC
Clocks 50.35 56.64 63.00 72.00 40.00 44.90 49.50 50.00
Clocks 0.00 110.00 126.00 135.00 0.00 80.00 75.00 65.00
Clocks 25.18 28.32 31.50 36.00 20.00 22.45 24.75 25.00
Clocks 0.00 55.00 63.00 67.50 0.00 40.00 37.50 32.50
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "ATI Mach64"
Monitor "NEC XV17+"
# Subsection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# ViewPort 0 0
# Virtual 1152 900
# EndSubsection
# Subsection "Display"
# Depth 32
# Modes "800x600" "640x480"
# ViewPort 0 0
# Virtual 800 600
# EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
# Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection
EndSection
Thank you very much for your time.
Frank
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Frank G. Ficnar - fficnar@netcom.ca