From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 26 21:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6579837B420 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@free.fr) Received: from free.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA26583; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:54:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@free.fr) Message-ID: <3A9B411A.34918293@free.fr> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:54:34 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Taylor Cc: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: ELSA Gloria video card and X References: <710709BB8B02D311942E006067441810544266@MELEXC01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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