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From: dennisg <dennisg@seanet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, XFree and ATI Mach64
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 16:34:34 -0800
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I had the same problem for about a year; now that XF8632 is out however
it is not a problem, in fact I run at 1280x1024, in 16bpp at 76hz! and
it looks really good. the new X is really easy to setup as well <point
and drool tc/tkl stuff>

dennisg

Giacomo Cocchella wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD 2.1 but the XFree Ati Mach64 server doesn't work.
> I know there is a problem with newer vga's (a friend of mine had the
> same problem with Linux, but using an old Mach64 VGA all works well).
> I'd like to know if there is a new release of XFree Mach64 server
> working well with all kind of Mach64. Now I'm using the SVga server
> and it works fine... I had some problems... the screen was splitted in
> some stripes, the same problem I had with some Dos programs using vesa
> modes... may be some memory addressing problem.
> I'm waiting for an answer.