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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:32:53 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        hbeen012@dewey.csun.edu (James Nguyen)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Diamond Stealth 64 Video Vram PCI
Message-ID:  <199601170802.SAA02133@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199601170510.VAA04779@dewey.csun.edu> from "James Nguyen" at Jan 16, 96 09:08:10 pm

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James, just an observation; it's polite to limit your messages to
a line length of about 75 characters.  You're just over the limit
and it makes your messages hard to read.  (And if they're hard
to read, many people will ignore them, often me included.)

I've reformatted this one for you, but bear it in mind.

Another thing, this is the _FreeBSD_ support forum, not the Xfree86
support forum.  In future, if you have problems with X, send your
questions to questions@xfree86.org.

James Nguyen stands accused of saying:

>     I understand that there's been a lot of problems with the driver
> support for Diamond Stealth 64 Video Vram PCI.  My X windows works

No, not at all recently.

> to some degree of success.  I have one major problem that is the
> screen is shifted about a quarter of the monitor screen to the
> right.  There is only a black border at the left side of my screen.

You don't say which version of the server you are using.  Your video 
mode configuration is most likely wrong.  If you are running 
version 3.1.2 or later, there is a program called 'xvidtune' that
may help you realign your screen.  Read the manual page for more details.

> Also, I'm not sure if this is normal but the X window screen is
> bigger than my monitor screen and I have to move my mouse up and top
> to reach the maximum screen size.  I didn't see that type of

This sounds like the 'virtual screen' featue.  Read the manual page
for the XF86config file.  This also has information on the format for
video mode specifications, and should be read in conjunction with the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc file to tweak your video config.

> problems anywhere in the docs or faqs.  My specs on that card are
> S3-968 Chip Set and a TI 3026, 220 MHz RamDac with 2 megs of Vram.
> I hope you can help me.

The 968 isn't properly supported (AFAIK) in versions of Xfree86 less
than 3.1.2 (which shipped with FreeBSD 2.1).
You don't say what you have in the way of a monitor, so it's not easy
to offer you a suitable 968 modeline.

>     James

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