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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:29:42 +0100
From:      cam <cam@bsdfr.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: video
Message-ID:  <20010206142942.H28470@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102060646350.30330-100000@zaius.poa>; from billt@what.ifelse.org on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:04:50AM -0500
References:  <3A7FE1C5.8070304@ebi.be> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102060646350.30330-100000@zaius.poa>

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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:04:50AM -0500, bill wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, marc vermeirssen wrote:
> 
> > I have two Video Cards (ATI Rage 128 GL(32MB) and NVIDIA RAGE 128 (32
> > MB)). I installed them both in my
> > computer but when setup the XServer in Freebsd it doesn't work.
> > What can I do to get it work. What is the best card ! What is the
> > sequence when I download a driver
> > of the installation process. (I am a newbie)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro 32MB and specify the "ati" driver
> under XFree 4.0.2. That driver _should_ work for your ATI Rage 128 card. I
> believe, but am not sure that under 4.0.1 the driver is called "r128" for
> the Rage 128's.
> 
> In my XFree86 Config file, the video device is specified like this:
> 
>   Section "Device"
>       Identifier  "ATI Wonder SVGA"
>       Driver      "ati"
>      #VideoRam    32768
>      #Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
>   EndSection
> 
> My whole config file is here: <http://www.ifelse.org/video/>; as I was
> getting some help a while back... maybe it will be useful for you. But if
> you just plop it into your setup, make sure to change the monitor syncs
> and mouse/kbds to yours.
> 
> Don't know much about your other card.
> 
> HTH,
> Bill
> 
in addition, the nVidia RAGE 128 card don't exists, you maybe wanted to say
nVidia RIVA 128 ?
Xfree4 use the driver 'nv' for all nVidia cards, try it.

cam


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