From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 21:25: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lepen.pair.com (lepen.pair.com [209.68.1.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B21D37BA9F for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from growing@lepen.pair.com) Received: (from growing@localhost) by lepen.pair.com (8.9.1/8.6.12) id AAA28161; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:24:50 -0500 (EST) From: Growing Lifestyle Message-Id: <200003170524.AAA28161@lepen.pair.com> X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XF86-3.3.6 ATI Rage 128 Pro problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:24:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd@growinglifestyle.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been tearing my hair out trying to get X11 going on my new PC. This is the first time I have tried to get X11 going under FreeBSD (previously only telnetted to it), so I may be doing something stupid. My graphics card is an ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB card. I am using the ATI Rage 128 (generic) card driver in 3.3.6 When I run startx, I get the following: (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psm0, buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "ATI Rage 128 (generic)" (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Dell M990" (--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/m isc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:u nscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X1 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Unknown chipset (0x5046) rev 0, Memory @ 0xf8000000, 0xf0100 000, I/O @ 0x9000 Using XFree86 ATI driver version 4.5. Unknown graphics controller detected. Unknown chip descriptor in BIOS: 0x3F3F0000. Unknown video adapter detected. Brooktree 476 or similar RAMDAC detected. Support for this video adapter is highly experimental! Mar 17 15:42:59 gremlin /kernel: pid 55586 (XF86_SVGA.xtt), uid 0: exited on sig nal 11 (core dumped) X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). It drops core even if I set the default to 640*480*8bpp. So is my case hopeless? Should I give up hope and go and buy another video card? If so (to save me wasting more money) can anybody recommend a cheap card that delivers 1600x1200x32bpp@75Hz under X11 reliably? I'm a newbie, so I may have done something really stupid. But a few things seem odd about the ports (current) for X11. For example, what is the difference between ports/x11-servers (currently only v3.3.5) and ports/x11/XFree86 (currently v3.3.6)? Any help would be appreciated, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message