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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!news.maxwell.syr.edu!metro.atlanta.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!207.115.134.241!newsfeed.gte.net!usenet From: gary brant <gbrant@gte.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree and clgd5428? (invalid chipset?) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:15:10 -0600 Organization: Gage Lines: 29 Message-ID: <33278D5E.45808B6A@gte.net> References: <5fukbs$dit@axl02it.ntc.nokia.com> <33255EA9.2825@juno.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.124.89.49 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37087 Jeff Moen wrote: > > 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. I have this card & just typed X -probeonly & got no such complaints. Perhaps you are using the wrong server?? I use XF86_SVGA, it works great - 256 colors at 1024x768. Which version of FreeBSD are you running? I am still running 2.1.6 & XFree86 3.1.2.