From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 02:00:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA19989 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.139]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA19983 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 02:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA00529; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 02:00:41 -0700 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Andy Lemay cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic (or not) SVGA drivers for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <31D36CE1.4654@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Andy Lemay wrote: > Hello there. A friend of mine recently installed FreeBSD on his > computer. Previous to this, he had obtained a Diamond Viper PCI video > card. Right now, he's stuck in 320x200 resolution because he doesn't > have a driver/port (?) that can impliment the SVGA capabilities of his > graphics card. He asked me to write this letter because he is having > some difficulties getting online (not relating to FreeBSD). Any info > you could provide me/my friend about getting support for his graphics > card would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. You must mean XFree86. You want to get your friend the S3 X server. That will take full advantage of his Diamond and get him to the higher resolutions and bit depths. Plus it'll be loads faster. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major