From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 23 22:21:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB7837B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:21:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta09.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C582C43E77 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20021024052137.UQBE1061.mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:21:37 +1000 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20021024151654.00ac1d90@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:21:20 +1000 To: Josh Tolbert , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org From: Rob B Subject: Re: XFree problems In-Reply-To: <20021023164143.C34356-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 16:52 23/10/2002 -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: >Hi, > What video cards are known to work with X 4.2.1 under >FreeBSD/alpha? I've tried a S3 Trio64V+, a Matrox Mystique 1064SG and a >Cirrus Logic "Laguna" board, all to no avail. The Matrox and S3 cards >change to a video mode, display some strange graphics and then lock the >machine solid. After searching, I find messages about "noint10," but I >have not seen any changes adding that option to the video card "Device" >section in my /etc/X11/XF86Config. > If people send me the hardware platform, video card make/model, >the version of FreeBSD, the version of X and any special notes/changes >that had to be made to XF86Config or any other relevant info about working >cards I would be happy to maintain a webpage of the aforementioned data. There are already pages around with this sort of data, albeit not FreeBSD specific. The Hardware database at http://www.linuxalpha.org shows what cards work with what system (and SRM version), as does a page here http://moon.hanya-n.org/comp/alpha/hct/graphics.html My Miata runs X fine with a Matrox Millenium cheers, Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message