Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:41:17 -0400 From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having trouble setting up X on Fbsd 4.7 w/ ATI Mach6 Message-ID: <F180iKBsuZ2K4xDh9vX00001952@hotmail.com>
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I had the same problem. 'ati' is not listed, so I used the default/vga. When I finished the install, startx failed. I did some rearch at www.XFree86.org and found that I needed to enter 'ati' for that parameter (I think on that screen, the driver defaulted to 'ati' and it was asking for a chipset??) so both driver and chipset needs to be 'ati' -- if you enter 'mach64', you loose some functionality. Note: as you mention, nether 'ati' or 'mach64' are options. Because I didn't do it during install, I can't tell you 100% that you should enter 'ati' during the install, but you can get more info at www.XFree86.org, or edit the XFConfig86 file after the install like I did. Using 'ati' might also help with modeline, I'm not sure. Modeline worked ok for me. John (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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