From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 16:41:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.223.196.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB8D37B407 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 16:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70181 invoked by uid 85); 12 May 2002 18:41:47 -0000 Received: from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com by uid 1001 with qmail-scanner-1.10 (sophie: 2.9/3.56. . Clear:0. Processed in 0.061358 secs); 12 May 2002 18:41:47 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com via angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 0.061358 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO 254.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (64.47.30.2) by 0 with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 May 2002 18:41:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:41:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman To: "Gerald A. Speak" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.0 + ATI problems In-Reply-To: <200205121532.14229.gaspeak@va.prestige.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That did it! The display is still quite clunky, but maybe that's to be expected... CS On Sun, 12 May 2002, Gerald A. Speak wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:49 pm, Spork wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I took my first stab on a new workstation with XFree86 4.2.0 out of the > > ports collection. This is FreeBSD 4.6-Prerelease via cvsup. Video card > > is an ATI "WinPro", which the X server calls a generic Mach64. > > > > My past experiences with X were early 4.x versions and 3.x versions, where > > you had to build your own config file with the included xf86config > > utility. I noticed on this version that the config util is built in to > > the server and it generates it's own very very brief config, with most > > values probed at runtime. > > > > X currently sees this as a Mach64 card and uses the ATI driver, not the > > generic VGA driver. It does work, with a few bad quirks: > > > > -redraw is very very slow. move a window and it trails > > -by default it goes to the max resolution of the monitor (the next step > > beyond 1280x1024) > > -setting the "virtual" line in each color depth subsection to my preferred > > 1024x768 causes the server to go to 256 color mode > > -if I comment out the lower color depths with the virtual screen setting, > > leaving 16bpp and 24bpp, the server will not start > > > > Any ideas? This thing seems to have changed quite a bit since I last > > played with it. I've had the same card working as desired in older revs > > of XFree. > > Try adding: > > DefaultDepth 24 > > To your Screens seciton of your XF86Config > > > > > I simply want to force it to go 16 or 24bpp @1024x768 or 1280x1024. It > > really wants to go a step higher and gets upset when I crank the > > resolution down. > > > > Any ideas? I've poked around the docs on xfree86.org, but I'm not finding > > a good general setup guide. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charles > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message