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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Clendaniel Ian IB <ian.clendaniel@phwilm.zeneca.com>
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Subject: Re: XF86 with Neomagic Chipset...
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Clendaniel Ian IB wrote:

> Alright.  I know that the Neomagic chipset isn't directly supported with
> XFree86 but I can't seem to even get the vga server up and running on
> it.  I'm attempting to install 2.2.6 on a NEC Versa 6060 (P166/48Megs)
> and the XF86Setup util seems to run fine but when I go to "startx"
> afterwards the machine just freezes (it never goes anywhere...just sits
> with startx displayed on the screen). 

Make sure you're using the VGA16 driver.  It may not work for it either, I
haven't tried it on my machine which has the same chipset.

> It has the Neomagic 128ZV chipset and I'm trying to get it set up so
> that I can try the XiG X-server which supports the chipset.

You don't set up XFree86 to set up XiG; they are *completely*separate*.

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



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