From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 22:16:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2B616A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:16:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from efbatey@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F86843D53 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:16:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from efbatey@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so212602wra for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:16:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=aYEDUbXBb3vr8EHfAxtoqK60sLdXqJ9w2O0bcWYI9jdA4AGJgyYHfe4JDHE6Xy+va/duaZq4p3APn4XFzbXnrYbQgMVGeBanfTRqsD6TEcGtbIILgWebwTpwuZlJUYv58P2hBojEg6+hnmvPEAVwDddDv1KIf5dGszQifjgQcQQ= Received: by 10.54.25.5 with SMTP id 5mr1790550wry; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.39.50 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:16:57 -0700 From: Everett Batey To: Questions at FreeBSD , FreeBSD X11 , UUASC List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP .. Xorg drivers .. not via .. FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Everett Batey List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:16:59 -0000 According to http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=3D5&ArticleID=3D68= &P=3D6 the Via User website, on running wins3id.exe .. my MSI KM3M-V Mobo like=20 scanpci -v says .. Has Builton "VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP" Chip ID 7205 / SSven 1462 / SSdev 7061=20 which =3Ds scanpci Output .. It is in hardware location AGP 01/00/0 Either FreeBSD's X.org (and FreeSBIE older Xorg) DO NOT PROPERLY=20 SUPPORT the X.org recommended "via" driver or the driver is broken or=20 the FreeBSD has some serious other native problems. Knoppix 3.4 which=20 uses XFree86_4 drives this chip just fine. When I backed FreeBSD 5.4 down to using XFree86 4 vs using X.org at least I got a screen to paint .. no widgets .. but hires matte. Is there anyone in FreeBSD land who might help or help me fix this? .. I ha= ve another server dying and am confronted with Linux and deserting FreeBSD. I really dont want to do that .. it would approach the pain of losing=20 my kitty. --=20 Ev Batey -- WA6CRE -- efbatey@gmail.com 805 340-6471 http://www.cotdazr.org