Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:54:34 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@free.fr> To: Murray Taylor <mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ELSA Gloria video card and X Message-ID: <3A9B411A.34918293@free.fr> References: <710709BB8B02D311942E006067441810544266@MELEXC01>
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Murray Taylor wrote: > > I am establishing FreeBSD 4.2 Release (from the CD Roms) on a Compaq A550. > X is the CDrom release (3.3.6 I think) > > Its a mega machine (dual 800Mhz processors, 512 Meg RAM etc etc...) as it > used to be > a graphics workstation. > As such I am trying to get X up and running, and am falling in a heap. > > The video card is an ELSA Gloria II-64 (from docs) > chip NVIO GL rev A3 > DAC integrated RAMDAC > memory 64Mb > > During an attempt to setup X during sysinstall I got to a point where > X -probeonly ran (well staggered and crashed) and managed to get this also > PCI: NVidia Quadro Rev 16 > memory @ 0xfd000000, 0xf0000000 > chipset Quadro > videoram 65408k I'm using an equivalent graphics board at work, with XFree 4.0.2 and absolutely no problems : you should try and install a recent XFree 4 prec-compiled package on the machine. [SNIP] > > Current dmesg: [SNIP : nice machine, indeed] -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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