From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 16 21:46:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13779 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mbox.ualr.edu (mbox.ualr.edu [144.167.10.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13770 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroyce@athena.ualr.edu) Received: from athena.ualr.edu by UALR.EDU (PMDF V4.2-11 #15587) id <01J0OU3Y00O00069DW@UALR.EDU>; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:45:42 CDT Received: from athena.ualr.edu ([144.167.7.48]) by athena.ualr.edu with ESMTP for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:45:41 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 23:44:07 -0500 From: Joe Subject: Re: Xwin wont do SVGA To: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-id: <35D7B517.42628468@athena.ualr.edu> X-Envelope-to: stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <3.0.5.32.19980816200116.008175a0@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff W. wrote: > First of all, I couldn't find my video card in the list, which I guess > doesn't matter, but it's a diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro. So, I installed the > generic SVGA and the VGA16 driver. The problem is that when I run > XF86Setup, even if I tell X to use the SVGA server, and even if I mess with > the different monitor types (I've tried all of them), X only runs in a > really low resolution. Hardly any of the windows that pop up fit on the > screen. So, my question is how do I get it to run in just a plain SVGA > mode???? Do I have to install something else??? > --Jeff W. > SuSE has their own xserver driver for the Fire GL 1000 Pro. I don't know if it works for FreeBSD, however. Their website is: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html -- There are no secret messages in this signature file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message