From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 23:58:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA24338 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:58:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24326 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:58:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA02133; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:32:54 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601170802.SAA02133@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 64 Video Vram PCI To: hbeen012@dewey.csun.edu (James Nguyen) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:32:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601170510.VAA04779@dewey.csun.edu> from "James Nguyen" at Jan 16, 96 09:08:10 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[