Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:33:41 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Rendition Verite 1000 rev 2 PCI and XF86 3.3.5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001130115570.23458-100000@sasknow.com>
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Hmm... Went to install Jan 11th's 3.4-STABLE snapshot on a client's system: Pentium II-233 ASUS Motherboard (don't have chipset handy... Uses SDRAM) 64MB SDRAM Using IDE drive controller, second serial port, parallel port Not much else... Generic PCI sound card that currently hasn't been configured in the kernel. I'd provide dmesg and X errors, but thanks to DHCP, my client's IP has changed and I won't have ssh access for a little while. My apologies... I'll do the best that I can. When starting X, the card is correctly (--) probed as a Rendition Verite 1000. However, no matter what card I choose in the XF86Setup card config, I get funny results. VGA16, of course, works... But is NOT really an alternative :-) Trying SVGA server with generic (probed) settings in detailed setup doesn't get very far... Starting X either gives a blank screen and a HARD LOCK (i.e., hard drive dies, logout, Ctl-Alt-Del ineffective, can't ping from outside. Power toggle/fsck required), or starts in funny modes like 320x200 (unknown colour depth). Selecting the Rendition Verite 1000 gives the same results as above (most commonly, blank screen and lock). Selecting Creative's Verite 1000 will actually start X with what appears to be the selected (640x480) screen resolution. However, when X is shut down, I get a helicopter pattern in text mode across all vtys that various vidcontrol settings/modes won't fix. Fastboot outta that one, for lack of a better way to set scan frequencies or whatever is causing the flipping :-) Selecting just about anything else gives at least one of the above scenarios. This is the first time I've heard about these Verite cards... All I know about this particular card is Win98's internal Rendition Verite 1000 driver appears to be able to fire the card flawlessly, and switch back and fourth to/from full screen text without the helicopter pattern. I'm open to the idea that the card/monitor/system combination is buggy/damaged, but I'd be more inclined to think it's a compatibility problem. Has anybody had any experiences with these cards, good, bad or indifferent? -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Technical and Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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