From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 4 20:22:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D9037B533 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 20:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-226-74.s328.tnt1.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.226.74] helo=beefstew) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 139flr-0002ff-00; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: <000401bfe630$5d42a290$4ae27ad1@beefstew> From: "leegold" To: Cc: References: <3962642A.C43D9443@northnet.org> Subject: Re: X Windows Problem Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:23:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org HEY! The ATI Expert 2000 is NOT supported!!! I was in exactly the same position - I bought that card and it did the same thing. My advice: Do not use that card for X. Remove it from your pc and swap in another card that IS supported. In my case I had a DELL w/an STB Velocity 128. I simply swapped the cards and ergo the STB is now in my FreeBSD box and it works like a charm. So it's the card - as of right now that ATI card will not work in X. There are supposedly some patches/fixes but i would not go that route. Just use a fully supported card. ----- Original Message ----- From: Abscond Process Service To: ; Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 6:24 PM Subject: X Windows Problem > Hello, > > I am using an AMD K62 at 550, DFI Motherboard, 128 Megs of RAM. My > video card is a XPERT 2000 from ATI it uses the 128 bit graphics chip. > I am using Free BSD OS 4.0 and here is my problem. Under X Windows > using the SVGA server and using the R128 driver everything works fine. > However, fonts in terminal windows or fonts in the title bar of windows > and in pop-up windows won't display correctly. Their appearance > resembles bar codes and is completely unreadible. I have tried every > ATI 128 bit graphics card on the list and it makes no difference, same > result occurs. Under Free BSD OS 4.0 I have tried the VGA 16 server to > see if the problem occurs in that mode and it simple will not work no > matter how I have tried it. Under Free BSD 3.3 VGA 16 X Window server > works fine; I can see all the fonts and everything works perfectly. > However, there are no 128 bit drivers for ATI cards under BSD 3.3. BSD > 3.3 uses X windows version 3.35. BSD 4 uses X Window 3.36. I am utterly > > frustrated at this point with this problem because I don't know if it's > because my graphics card (ATI Xpert 2000) is not directly supported or > is it some other problem I am unaware of? > > Thank you for your time. > > Aaron P. Smith > weserveu@northnet.org > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message