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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Help with X and ATI Ultra with 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Nov25.230253.5404@netcom.com>
Keywords: ATI X 386BSD
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
References: <Bill.3.0@library.health.ufl.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 23:02:53 GMT
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In article <Bill.3.0@library.health.ufl.edu> Bill@library.health.ufl.edu (Bill Kuntz) writes:
>I am new to 386BSD and am trying to get X working with a Gateway 486/50 and 
>the ATI Utlra card.  I retreived the binaries for XFREE86 from agate, and 
>looked in the modeDB.txt file for this card, and can not find it.   I tried 
>the VGA wonder, and it flashes on the screen, and the screen is left 
>garbled, but the system does not crash. (ie I can type shutdown and it does 
>this.)
>Any Ideas??  Unfortunately I can not rebuild the source due to lack of drive 
>space.
>
>TIA
>Bill Kuntz
>Systems Assistant --  University of Florida
>                      Health Science Center Library
>
>Internet:  bill@library.health.ufl.edu
>Phone :    (904) 392-3854

Try XBSD8514 you will like it. It is a server available at 
sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming

You will need to uncompressed your fonts and change the names
of the fonts in the fonts.dir file to not have the .Z extensions


Amancio Hasty