Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:43:13 -0800 From: Jeff <jeff@simplenet.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ATI Mobility Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19991116114313.0085b320@mail.simplenet.com>
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I have a Solo 9300 laptop with the ATI Rage Mobility-P 8MB video card. I cannot get this card to work with X in FreeBSD. I have tried 3.2 and 3.3, using XF86_Mach64 and XF86_SVGA servers. I get what can be recognized as a desktop, but it is totally unusable due to extreme crosshatching and distortion. I have also tried the patched X server which can be found at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ and this made no difference whatsoever. The card does work with Linux. I have installed RedHat 6.0 and 6.1, and was able to get the video card working perfectly by adding VGA=792 to the lilo.conf file. I am not entirely sure what this does, but it seems to be what makes the difference. The video card behaves the same way in Linux until I add that line. Has anyone gotten this card to work with FreeBSD? Does such an equivalent line exist for FreeBSD? I really cannot use Linux, its got to be FreeBSD or nothing. Thanks, Jeff Jeff R. jeff@simplenet.com SimpleNet http://www.simplenet.com 619 881 3000 phone 619 881 3010 fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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