Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:33:44 -0400 From: Bush Doctor <guru@goku.cl.msu.edu> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATI Mach64-GB w/ XFree86 4.2.0 ... black screen? Message-ID: <20020419163344.GA30581@goku.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020418162639.W38886-100000@mail1.hub.org> References: <20020418162639.W38886-100000@mail1.hub.org>
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Out of da blue Marc G. Fournier aka (scrappy@hub.org) said:
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> Morning ...
>
> Just upgraded one of my colleagues computers ... brand new
> dual-AMD system, 512Meg of RAM ... really flies ...
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> Copied in her old XF86Config file, as well as tried to regenerate
> one with xf86config, and when I do a 'startx', it just hangs there doing
> nothing ...
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> Are there any problems with the ATI Mach64-GB card and 4.2.0?
> Something I'm overlooking to debug this?
I ran into the same problem. I thought it was the video card. Since it was a
few years old, i just picked up a used NVidia card and kept going. In
graphics mode the screen was skewed and kept blinking every 10 seconds or so
in graphics mode
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> Thanks ...
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#;@0
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