From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 19:44:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA03295 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:44:25 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA03290 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:44:18 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA10793; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:42:19 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510100312.MAA10793@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Video Problem To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:42:18 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01HW8FEMILP4004W4V@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Oct 9, 95 10:54:52 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1363 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson stands accused of saying: > > 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. You should ring the video card people back and tell them that they shouldn't try to be useful when it comes to unix systems 8) > 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? The FreeBSD kernel avoids doing anything in that area for exactly that reason. I understand from your other message that you're using an ET4000w32p-based card. Current X servers have endless grief with this chipset - I can only suspect that either the chips are a pain to program, or that useful information on them is hard to come by. In either case, the w32p is a not a good choice for X; I'd recommend an S3 based card myself. > Annelise -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[