From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 11:58:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA18898 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:58:53 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18890 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:58:43 -0700 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA19787; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:56:29 +0100 Message-Id: <199510091856.TAA19787@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Video Problem To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:56:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <01HW8GWAWCWA004W4V@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Oct 9, 95 11:45:09 am From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1635 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > > >> I'm having trouble with a messy screen in X, and the video card > >> tech people suggest excluding A000-C7FF as they can be excluded > >> in the DOS/Windows memory management line in the config.sys file. > >> > >> The installation is 2.0.5, generic kernel. Does this already > >> avoid writing to the A000-C7FF area, or is there something I could > >> add that would do this? > > >What card are you talking about? What they said about excluding > >memory in the config.sys does not apply to FreeBSD. FreeBSD > >leaves the memory below 1MB alone (at least it doesn't interfere > >with it in such an unpleasant way as EMM386 would do). > > If FreeBSD leaves memory below 1MB alone, then this is not the > source of the problem. The card is a Diamond Stealth 32. The > dot clock problem has been taken care of with the freq program. > But recent postings to this group noted a number of other people > having similar problems using the SVGA server. I'm using the > _W32 server now and still have this problem. The Stealth 32 > has an et4000w32p chip. Another excellent X server is AcceleratedX by Xinside,Inc. (info@xinside.com). Maybe they coped better with Diamond cards - Diamond was boykotted by the XFree86 community for their policy on techical information. I just peeked into their cards database and they support the Stealth 32. > > > > >What does dmesg give? > > I don't know what kind of a message to ask about that would be > relevant to this problem-- Just wanted to know what type of network card you have. > > Annelise > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de