From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 15: 6:36 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 8226037B411 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 60836 invoked by uid 85); 9 May 2002 17:06:50 -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 0.061649 secs); 09 May 2002 17:06:50 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com via angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 0.061649 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO 252.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (64.47.28.151) by 0 with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 May 2002 17:06:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 18:49:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Spork To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 4.2.0 + ATI problems Message-ID: <20020509183930.R10628-100000@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> 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 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. 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