Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:46:40 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com (ED WOLPERT ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Trident 9440 help with Xfree86, on Freebsd Message-ID: <199505151646.JAA00228@narnia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 May 1995 11:12:08 EDT." <9505151512.AA02297@eis16.philips.com>
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>Folks- > I've installed Freebsd 2.0, from the Walnut creek cdrom. >I've been trying to get the x working, and have gotten it ok at >800x600, 16colors. My card (VL-46, trident TVGA9440) can support >256 colors at 1024x768, and so can my monitor (Philips cm4015) >I realize that the latest chipset from Trident that is supported >is the 9420, but I'd figure I'd try it anyway. (Since it's >the only one I've got. ;-) > > Basically, when I do the configuration, everything is there, >and I'm trying to emulate the 9420 chipset. However, the xfree >code sees the version of the board (0xe3 I believe) and reconizes >that it's unknown, so it defaults to generic. Perhaps there is a >way to configure generic to handle 1024x768 at 256 colors? Any >ideas? Ask the folks at XFree86.org? > >-- > Virtually, > Edward Wolpert > >------------------------------- "The best way out is always >wolperte@pcec.knox.philips.com | through." - Robert Frost >wolpert@utk.edu | >=============================== 'Give me a shell, and I'll >Truth is what you believe. | give you the world.' (tm) >------------------------------- > > >Fnord. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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