From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 22:26:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18612 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18605 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08151; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Steve Goldstone cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting X to work on laptop In-Reply-To: <006501bdc7db$79f5f790$e82356ce@yogsothoth.us.checkpoint.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Steve Goldstone wrote: > We are having a rather frustrating time getting the video component of > X to work on 2.2.7 on an OmniBook 4100 laptop. The video on board is > Neomagic; as shipped with W95, the screen runs 1024 x 768 at 75 Hz > vertical refresh. > > Using XF86Setup, we haven't been able to get a combination that works > - either the Xserver does not come up or it comes up with 'double' > pixels (large, square pixels with the text mostly unreadable, chopped > off on the right side of the screen). You need a new X server with a hacked driver. See http://www.freebsd.org/~dwhite/neomagic for a replacement SVGA driver and info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message