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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.kolumbus.fi!news.csc.fi!nokia.fi!ntc.nokia.com!tnso09.tele.nokia.fi!jkokko From: Jari Kokko <nobody@cpcemail.ntc.nokia.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree and clgd5428? (invalid chipset?) Date: 12 Mar 1997 12:48:41 GMT Organization: Älytön Wööppäri Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5g68n9$d83@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> References: <5fukbs$dit@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <33255EA9.2825@juno.com> Reply-To: jkokko@cc.hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: tnso09.ntc.nokia.com X-real-email-address: Jari Kokko <jkokko@cpcemail.ntc.nokia.com> X-email-spoofing-reason: To avoid spamming automagic email grabbers Originator: jkokko@tnso09.tele.nokia.fi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37008 In article <33255EA9.2825@juno.com>, Jeff Moen <mjmoen@juno.com> wrote: > 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. What's funny (and which I failed to point out in the original post, although I implied it) is that the XF86Setup gets X running okay, in what looks like 1024x768x256 mode, but the X server moans about the chipset being invalid (after first listing the chipset with -probeonly). This makes me think it might be that the server detects the chipset okay, but then does something with that knowledge that the setup program doesn't do and which fails. I haven't looked at the source code yet, but I will... although I got a XF86Config file from a helpful person (thanks), and I will first test if that makes a difference... Jari Kokko -- You a big nose have it!