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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: XWindows-Screen is unreadable
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 lannyb@mail.interhop.net wrote:

>   Hello,
> 
>  I have been trying for days to get XWindows to 
> work..unsuccessfully :-)
> 
>  My FreeBSD system is working, and recompiled kernel is fine. 
> The problem is when running startx, the screen seems to be somewhat 
> compressed. I have tried all the various Mach_64 Xservers. I have an 
> ATI Mach64 Video card with 4megs ram. I have tried using different 
> settings for the mouse. All prove to not get X windows to start. 

I don't know.  I have a Mach64 Graphics Pro Turbo (?) with the Mach64
server on the default settings and it works great.

What are the probe messages from the X server?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major