Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:54:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mach64-svga on FreeBSD/alpha Message-ID: <199910281954.VAA17273@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <14359.36582.911428.608670@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Oct 27, 1999 8: 9: 7 pm"
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As Andrew Gallatin wrote ... > > Wilko Bulte writes: > Darn. I should have thought about this sooner.... About 1 year ago, > when we were first getting X working, I used one of the ATI Mach64 > cards that shipped in some older AS200s. This was a borrowed card. I > wrote the following about it in private email after getting it working: > > > I borrowed an Ati Mach64 from a friend (thanks Sean!), and it > > appears to work just fine. My AS200 has been up for 1/2 hour running > > netperf TCP streams (over a 100mb nic), Bonnie, a remotely displayed > > 'ico', all while I drag opaque windows around over a complex gif > > background. Its not exactly speedy, but its rock solid. > > > > Speaking of the ATI server, it tries to grope around in the bios > > strings to figure out the ramdac & clock chip. I bludgeoned the driver > > into submission & specified the ramdac/clock chips in my config file. > > But there are probably more drivers that do this; I guess we'll need > > to make xf86ReadBIOS work.. > > I don't know if xf86ReadBIOS was ever fixed. But you might want to > try specifying the clock chip & ramdac. I no longer recall what I > meant by "bludgeon the driver into submission" & I no longer have that > copy of the X server code. I do still have the xf86 config file where > I said: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "m64" > ClockChip "ics2595" > Ramdac "stg1702" > Option "override_bios" > Option "no_block_write" > Option "no_bios_clocks" > # Clocks 135.0 80.0 40.0 > EndSection I tried these, building on my i386 version of XF86config that I used on my Intel box with this card. The only difference is my Ramdac BTW. Alas it does not work :-( Some more hacking to do I guess. > These are almost certainly wrong for your spiffy new card, but you get > an idea of what I needed to inform the X server about. It is not a spiffy new card :) I already have it a couple of years (and I bought it for a few bucks at a flea market) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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