Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:42:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: Abscond Process Service <weserveu@northnet.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Window Display Mode Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041341170.87483-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <39624A0D.6C573872@northnet.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Have you tried XFree86 4.x? I had the same problems with XFree 3.3.5 and 3.3.6 with my Rage Fury card, but most of the font problems disappeared when I upgraded to XFree86 4.0. The performance though after the upgrade decreased, but at least I can read what's on the screen. // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Abscond Process Service wrote: > Hello, > > I am using an AMD K62 at 550, DFI Motherboard, 128 Megs of RAM. My > video card is a XPERT 2000 from ATI it uses the 128 bit graphics chip. > I am using Free BSD OS 4.0 and here is my problem. Under X Windows > using the SVGA server and using the R128 driver everything works fine. > However, fonts in terminal windows or fonts in the title bar of windows > and in pop-up windows won't display correctly. Their appearance > resembles bar codes and is completely unreadible. I have tried every > ATI 128 bit graphics card on the list and it makes no difference, same > result occurs. Under Free BSD OS 4.0 I have tried the VGA 16 server to > see if the problem occurs in that mode and it simple will not work no > matter how I have tried it. Under Free BSD 3.3 VGA 16 X Window server > works fine; I can see all the fonts and everything works perfectly. > However, there are no 128 bit drivers for ATI cards under BSD 3.3. BSD > 3.3 uses X windows version 3.35. BSD 4 uses X Window 3.36. I am utterly > frustrated at this point with this problem because I don't know if it's > because my graphics card (ATI Xpert 2000) is not directly supported or > is it some other problem I am unaware of? > > Thank you for your time. > > Aaron P. Smith > weserveu@northnet.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0007041341170.87483-100000>