From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 10:57:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA09464 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09447 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA04855; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:58:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:58:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: Gary Kline cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MACH 64 CT card anyone???? In-Reply-To: <199608301707.KAA18975@athena.tera.com> 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, 30 Aug 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Jeremy Sigmon: > > > > This probably should go to a XFree86 list (is there one?) but here it goes. > > I downloaded the new 3.1.2F binaries and I cannot get the thing to work. > > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5 and I have a ATI Mach 64 CT video card with > > 2048K memory. My machine has 16megs of memory. My monitor supports > > 1280x1024 and HFreq 31.5 - 64 VFreq 50-120 > > > > I am using the Mach64 server, I didn't choose a RAMDAC and I chose the > > STG1703 Clock Chip. I have not tried SVGA yet, but I might soon. > > > > When I type xinit the monitor goes into power saving mode and I get a blue > > box saying : Out Of Scan Range > > > > Anyone else solve this problem or who can forward this to an appropriate > > list and tell me where this list is? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Jeremy > > > > If your system did run X under its older, previous set > up, the difficulty may be in your XF86Config file. After > a few days of hard work last weekend I discovered that > was the trouble in my upgrading from an older version > of X to the newer. > > You might first see if your old configuration will work > with your newly generated XF86Config. Carefully plug in > the old data into your newer config file. If you haven't > generated a new configuration file, so do. --The > instruction are concisely given in Greg Lehey's FreeBSD > text-- > > Once you have your old driver working with the new > XF86Config, try using the new Mach driver. It may take > some tweaks, but ought to work eventually. > > Once you have the new driver working with the new config > file, use xvidetune to fine tune your Modeline data. > > gary kline > Thanks... I found out my problem... Above you see I picked a clock chip. I shouldn't have done that.. I misunderstood a message that XConfig told me. It said not to probe for it and I assumed that it meant that I had to choose the clock chip type. oops. It now seems to work fine. Thanks