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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:54:07 -0600
From:      Laszlo Vagner <vagner@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setup Problems
Message-ID:  <352068DF.50FD5009@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329221345.23543N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mike Shimony wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a few problems setting up FreeBSD to run on my
> > system.
> >
> > 1. Beside looking at the hardware is there a way to
> > determine the address and irq of devices?
>
> If the hardware is working under another OS, check it's settings.
>
> > 2. I have Compudyne KD-1700V Monitor and a Diamond Speed
> > Star Pro Video Card. While setting up Xwindows I entered the
> > ranges for Horizontal (30-82kHz) and Vertical (50-120Hz).
> > When I move a window I get small white horizontal lines
> > flashing on the screen. And sometimes my mouse cursor turns
> > into a bunch of vertical bars (like a bar code). I didn't
> > set a clock for the video card. Should I run Xprobe even
> > though It says not to. I was able to get this setup to work
> > under Linux, and I've tried it with the same settings but it
> > still doesn't work. Any suggestions?
>
> It should work; Linux and FreeBSD use the same X server, XFree86.  I don't
> know about the noise, it may be a resource conflict or chip misdetection.
>
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
>
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I had a similiar problem but without the mouse problem, the solution was
torun less colors instead of 32 bit color try 16 bit.



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