From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 2:34: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6624937B4D7 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5866 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2000 09:33:56 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 09:33:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 4715 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2000 09:33:56 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 20 Oct 2000 09:33:56 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <48RBL0DK>; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:32:55 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Jim Graham' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Videocard query Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:27:37 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah, yes. I also have a Rage 128-based card, which at the time I bought it wouldn't work at all with XFree (looked great for Q2 under Win95 - better than my Voodoo2!). As a consequence, I got the Xpert 98 card and the Rage 128 sits in a stat bag in my filing cabinet! A quick glance at www.xfree86.org reveals that full support can be achieved, using the SVGA server, with the r128 driver under 3.3.6. Check out the particular page at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status6.html#6. 4.* supports it too, using the same r128 driver. HTH (I certainly didn't know - now I can get my ATI Rage 128 working again... cool) Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Graham [mailto:jim@n5ial.gnt.net] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:15 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Videocard query > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:31:10AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > From: "Daniel Bye" > > > > > ATI cards are available for quite cheap to quite > expensive, but they WORK > > > with minimal fuss. I also use a Xpert98-based card, and > it is excellent. > > > > Thanks Dan ... judging from the response it appears that > everyone on the > > list has had good experiences with ATI stuff :) > > Well, almost everyone. I have an ATI Xpert 2000 (Rage 128, 32M), and > have been constantly plagued with misplaced text. Quite often, text > that was supposed to go in an xterm (or Eterm, or .... well, > everything > I've tried) window ends up in the root window.... Same goes > for text that > was supposed to appear in Netscape---it often ends up in the > root window, > too. > > I'm running XFree86 3.3.6 as shipped with FreeBSD 4.1.1 (well, after > configuring it) with the SVGA server (picked by the config). > I'm running > it at 1600x1200, 32bpp. > > When it behaves, it's a great card. When it doesn't, it's > very annoying. > The question is, is it the card or the X server? And is there a fix? > > Later, > --jim > > -- > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | "There is no reason anyone would want > jim@n5ial.gnt.net | a computer in their home." > ICBM / Hurricane: | --Ken Olsen, DEC founder, 1977 > 30.39735N 86.60439W | > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message