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Date:      Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:42:16 -0500
From:      George Ellenburg <gmelists@caffeine.sundial.net>
To:        Clarence_Griffin@ed.gov (Clarence Griffin)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X display 'laps' itself.
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19981109144216.0095f7c0@10.0.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <0029A194.003144@ed.gov>

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Check out Compaq's website, under Technical Support.  You'll need to
download the boot and F10 Setup Disks for your Deskpro.

I was running a Deskpro 4000.  The embedded video card was a Cirrus Logic
CL-GD5446 card with 2Mb RAM.  Booting with the Compaq supplied boot disks
and setup utilities will reveal the exact card for you, too.

I should point out, that when running the SVGA X Server, I, too, would get
horizontal lines in the middle of the screen - not often, but mainly when
the the screen updates would be fast  (like catting a long file in an xterm
window).  I used kde however, so refreshing the desktop was easy and since
it only happened every once in a while I wasn't too concerned.  There is an
X server specifically for the Cirrus Logic or ATI cards, but since I had
1024x768x16bpp resolution anyway, I wasn't too concerned.

Make the floppies from Compaq first, and find out exactly what you've got
in there.  If you need any help running XF86Setup afterwards, let me know
and I'll be more than happy to walk you through it.

Regards,

George Ellenburg


At 12:40 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Clarence Griffin wrote:
>     I've installed FreeBSD 2.2.6, on a Compaq Deskpro, with a built-in 
>     video card, which FreeBSD reveals as an "ATI Mach64 with IBM514 
>     Ramdac".  The Monitor is a Gateway2000 EV700.

>     I think I did everything exactly like the first time, but now, when X 
>     gets running, the display shows that there seems to be a devideing 
>     line in the center of the display, where when the mouse is passed over 
>     it, it disappears in the center of the screen and reemerges from 
>     either the right or left.  The left side of the display is stable as a 
>     rock, while the right half seems to have a little flicker in it.
heck

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