Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:50:30 -0400 From: Clendaniel Ian IB <ian.clendaniel@phwilm.zeneca.com> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: XiG X-Server (was: XF86 with Neomagic Chipset...) Message-ID: <c=GB%a=TMAILUK%p=ZENECA%l=USUWPHMSX10-980602005030Z-1121@usuwphmsxhub02.usuwph.zeneca.com>
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Well after getting a little bored this weekend...and throwing a few back ;)...I finally decided to sit down and crank this damn thing out. I ended up with a (mostly) functioning machine. I couldn't get XFree86 to work *at all* but did eventually get the XiG set up. It seems to work fine for the 10-minute demo except for when you're in a shell environment sometimes the lines start to overlap a little...it's kind of weird. When you refresh the screen sometimes it goes away but sometimes it just shifts position a little. I'm going to play with setting up for a specific screen type (it's just set to the generic svga monitor right not) to see if that makes a difference. Can anyone think of anything else that might cause this sort of thing to happen?? If I can get this solved I will finally get rid of 95 for good.... --Ian ps- also installed PAO and am glad to say its setup went flawlessly and found both my modem and ethernet cards just fine. Was able to take the ppp.conf from my desktop and with a little modification it worked great. Ian Clendaniel IT Technition Zeneca Pharmaceuticals FOC1 NW255 x4494 >---------- >From: Clendaniel Ian IB >Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 4:30 PM >To: 'Doug White' >Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' >Subject: RE: XF86 with Neomagic Chipset... > >>>Make sure you're using the VGA16 driver. It may not work for it either, I >>>haven't tried it on my machine which has the same chipset. > >Yup...that's the one. It just freezes when it tries to bring up the >server. I tried reinstalling it again and now it puts up the first page >of initialization messages and stops after the line: > (**) MONO: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor" > >I'm going to try to manually configure X like with all my other >machines...we'll see if I have any other luck that way...not used to >this new-fangled GUI XF86Setup... > >>> It has the Neomagic 128ZV chipset and I'm trying to get it set up so >>> that I can try the XiG X-server which supports the chipset. >> >>You don't set up XFree86 to set up XiG; they are *completely*separate*. > >I tried just setting this up and it won't run the mouse...or rather the >mouse doesn't respond to movement correctly. as soon as you touch the >touchpad the mouse shoots to the side of the screen, never to move again >(except for a little twitching). Oh...just FYI...does the exact same >thing on both of the laptops. > >>--Ian >> >> >> > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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