From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 11:45:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA18644 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:45:42 -0700 Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18639 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:45:40 -0700 Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8660) id <01HW8GWAWCW8004W4V@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:45:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: Video Problem To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HW8GWAWCWA004W4V@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de" X-VMS-Cc: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org",ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >> I'm having trouble with a messy screen in X, and the video card >> tech people suggest excluding A000-C7FF as they can be excluded >> in the DOS/Windows memory management line in the config.sys file. >> >> The installation is 2.0.5, generic kernel. Does this already >> avoid writing to the A000-C7FF area, or is there something I could >> add that would do this? >What card are you talking about? What they said about excluding >memory in the config.sys does not apply to FreeBSD. FreeBSD >leaves the memory below 1MB alone (at least it doesn't interfere >with it in such an unpleasant way as EMM386 would do). If FreeBSD leaves memory below 1MB alone, then this is not the source of the problem. The card is a Diamond Stealth 32. The dot clock problem has been taken care of with the freq program. But recent postings to this group noted a number of other people having similar problems using the SVGA server. I'm using the _W32 server now and still have this problem. The Stealth 32 has an et4000w32p chip. >What does dmesg give? I don't know what kind of a message to ask about that would be relevant to this problem-- Annelise