From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 6:40:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackwater.dynip.com (pm2-10.btconline.net [12.8.130.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A517637B41A for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 06:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackwater.dynip.com [192.168.0.5] by blackwater.dynip.com (FTGate 2, 2, 4, 1); Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:39:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3BEFDF12.1030503@blackwater.dynip.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:39:14 -0500 From: Angelo Felix Organization: BlackwaterBBS Nahunta, Ga User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Robbins Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, matthew@starbreaker.net Subject: Re: References: <3BEEEE93.9000802@blackwater.dynip.com> <20011112005852.12D64240C9@IMGate1.cshore.com> <01111115013400.01007@dancer.blackwater.dynip.com> <20011112014536.CFA752411B@IMGate1.cshore.com> <3BEF4D08.2000504@blackwater.dynip.com> <20011112001146.09 <00b701c16b82$62009390$4b08a8c0@starlowin2k1> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090007050209080707080304" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------090007050209080707080304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I'm starting to get the picture now, hehe! Sorry if i seem a little dumb, but actually, I'm just real slow, not to mention , its all very new to me (the freeBSD and the UNIX) . I guess it would be senseless for me to look for the BSD 4.4 or the XF 4.1 at this time. I am going to take out my video card , look at the chips, then look for its specs on the net. I saw some options on the BSD Graphical installation , where you can specify a few things on the video card. What appears to be happening is, when any SVGA mode is selected, the card does not understand and just defaults to the same "whatever it is" low res - mean time XWindows thinks its all ok, and displays what it believes to be correct. Result is my oversized graphics. I'll continue posting whatever i can figure out from all this. Meantime , the regular 16 color VGA mode works fine - at least i can edit the config files, and do email in that mode. Scott Robbins wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Angelo Felix" >To: "Scott" >Cc: ; >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:36 AM >Subject: Re: Video too Big for the Monitor > > >>yes, the BSD version is 4.3 , what Version XF86 does your 4.4 have? >> if its version 4.1, doen't it have some voodoo 5 drivers for selection? >> > >No, it only had voodoo3 drivers. Actually, you got me interested in looking >into this again, and I did a search on deja for it. One of the first things >I found was my post to BSD-questions. :) > >4.4 does come with XF 3.x I think, however you can 4.1 from the ports >collection. As I've said, I actually have better luck with 3.x than 4.1 with >this. > > >>Scott >> > > > --------------090007050209080707080304 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I'm starting to get the picture now, hehe! Sorry if i seem a little dumb, but actually, I'm just real slow, not to mention , its all very new to me (the freeBSD and the UNIX) .
I guess it would be senseless for me to look for the BSD 4.4 or the XF 4.1 at this time. I am going to take out my video card , look at the chips, then look for its specs on the net. I saw some options on the BSD Graphical installation , where you can specify a few things on the video card.
What appears to be happening is, when any SVGA mode is selected, the card does not understand and just defaults to the same "whatever it is" low res - mean time XWindows thinks its all ok, and displays what it believes to be correct. Result is my oversized graphics.
I'll continue posting whatever i can figure out from all this.
Meantime , the regular 16 color VGA mode works fine - at least i can edit the config files, and do email in that mode.

Scott Robbins wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Angelo Felix" <angelo@blackwater.dynip.com>
To: "Scott" <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
Cc: <matthew@starbreaker.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: Video too Big for the Monitor

yes, the BSD version is 4.3 , what Version  XF86 does  your 4.4 have?
 if its version 4.1, doen't it have some voodoo 5 drivers for selection?


No, it only had voodoo3 drivers.  Actually, you got me interested in looking
into this again, and I did a search on deja for it.  One of the first things
I found was my post to BSD-questions.  :)

4.4 does come with XF 3.x I think, however you can 4.1 from the ports
collection. As I've said, I actually have better luck with 3.x than 4.1 with
this.

Scott

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