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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Jeff Moen <mjmoen@juno.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree and clgd5428? (invalid chipset?) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:31:21 -0500 Organization: PC Solution Source Lines: 22 Message-ID: <33255EA9.2825@juno.com> References: <5fukbs$dit@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> Reply-To: mjmoen@juno.com NNTP-Posting-Host: wsx-nc2-03.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Mar 11 7:31:08 AM CST 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36897 Jari Kokko wrote: > > Hi all, > > I tried to get X running on my newly installed FreeBSD system. > Downloaded latest binary, and ran XF86Setup. Everything seems to go > right, but when I start to start X with startx, I get: > > SVGA: 'clgd5428' is an invalid chipset > > and I get the same message from X -probeonly > > I can't figure out why it says that! The server lists clgd5428 as a > supported chipset, and my card says it is one in writing, as well as > the DOS CLMODE utility. > I have had similar problems with various Cirrus Logic adapters (ie. 5429,5434). Although maybe not the mode you would like they all seem to work well if you run XF86Setup and select VGA16 for the card setup. Although I have not spent much effort doing so I have been unable to get them working correctly using the BSD cirrus servers.