From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 27 14:11:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00181 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:11:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.enteract.com (thor.enteract.com [207.229.143.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA00175 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrs@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 29998 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1998 22:10:23 -0000 Received: from adam.enteract.com (jrs@206.54.252.1) by thor.enteract.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 1998 22:10:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:10:23 -0600 (CST) From: John Sconiers To: Venkat Padmanabhan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running X with AccelSTAR II adaptor In-Reply-To: <199810272205.OAA18916@mercenary.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Venkat Padmanabhan wrote: > Hi, > I just installed FreeBSD 3.0 on a Gateway E-5000 system with a > 333 MHz Pentium-II CPU. I have an AccelSTAR II graphics adaptor > on this machine. I am unable to get XFree86 running on it. I > ran XF86Setup but it was not clear which "card" I should select. > Under Win NT, the chip is listed as 3D Labs Permedia 2 and the > DAC type as TI TVP4020. I haven't used this exact card but I have used "unsupported" video cards with XFREE86. What worked for me is finding a card supported with the exact chipset that I had. It usually works.. > Could someone who has dealt with this card help? > Thanks, > -Venkat JOHN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message