Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:23:17 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: <WeServeU@northnet.org> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X Windows Problem Message-ID: <000401bfe630$5d42a290$4ae27ad1@beefstew> References: <3962642A.C43D9443@northnet.org>
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HEY! The ATI Expert 2000 is NOT supported!!! I was in exactly the same position - I bought that card and it did the same thing. My advice: Do not use that card for X. Remove it from your pc and swap in another card that IS supported. In my case I had a DELL w/an STB Velocity 128. I simply swapped the cards and ergo the STB is now in my FreeBSD box and it works like a charm. So it's the card - as of right now that ATI card will not work in X. There are supposedly some patches/fixes but i would not go that route. Just use a fully supported card. ----- Original Message ----- From: Abscond Process Service <weserveu@northnet.org> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 6:24 PM Subject: X Windows Problem > Hello, > > I am using an AMD K62 at 550, DFI Motherboard, 128 Megs of RAM. My > video card is a XPERT 2000 from ATI it uses the 128 bit graphics chip. > I am using Free BSD OS 4.0 and here is my problem. Under X Windows > using the SVGA server and using the R128 driver everything works fine. > However, fonts in terminal windows or fonts in the title bar of windows > and in pop-up windows won't display correctly. Their appearance > resembles bar codes and is completely unreadible. I have tried every > ATI 128 bit graphics card on the list and it makes no difference, same > result occurs. Under Free BSD OS 4.0 I have tried the VGA 16 server to > see if the problem occurs in that mode and it simple will not work no > matter how I have tried it. Under Free BSD 3.3 VGA 16 X Window server > works fine; I can see all the fonts and everything works perfectly. > However, there are no 128 bit drivers for ATI cards under BSD 3.3. BSD > 3.3 uses X windows version 3.35. BSD 4 uses X Window 3.36. I am utterly > > frustrated at this point with this problem because I don't know if it's > because my graphics card (ATI Xpert 2000) is not directly supported or > is it some other problem I am unaware of? > > Thank you for your time. > > Aaron P. Smith > weserveu@northnet.org > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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