From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 16:03:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AEF016A405; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:03:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yann@raven.kierun.org) Received: from raven.kierun.org (raven.yorksj.ac.uk [193.61.234.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95D813C4BE; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:03:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yann@raven.kierun.org) Received: from yann by raven.kierun.org with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HRVwo-000HpW-Ku; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:03:30 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:03:30 +0000 From: Yann Golanski To: Sean Bryant Message-ID: <20070314160330.GA68530@kierun.org> References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com> <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: "Yann Golanski, University of York, +44(0)1904-433088" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:24:26 +0000 Cc: Andrew Reilly , freebsdfree.linuxsir@alpha.blogger.com, Kip Macy , Nikolas@FreeBSD.ORG, Britton , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:03:41 -0000 --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Sean Bryant on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20 -0400 > Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated= =20 > but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work= =20 > for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.= =20 > It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver= =20 > is working just fine for me. I tried to get a vesa working with a Radeon X1900 and the screen resolution is rather poor. I certainly cannot seem to get it at 1600x1200 which is what I am used to. See my previous post if you think you can improve on that. I can live without fancy GL screen savers but having a tiny screen is rather irritating. --=20 yann@kierun.org -=3D*=3D- www.kierun.= org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF+BzS91FwBp3iYxgRAq4yAJ0cLw5AARALN6qXjeT5H/8Qlq10dgCfV98B 27A68eH+FjS2+/p5s4VbMsA= =Uiz6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--