Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:20:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert W Schlotterbeck <rws@nothing.org> To: Matt Holmes <matt@marksman-tech.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 with ATI Rage Pro LT on a laptop... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907190318330.50157-100000@undertow.lan> In-Reply-To: <3792DC84.2BEAE1C4@marksman-tech.co.uk>
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I think I read the Rage LT's weren't supported... If I remember correctly, this was as of the latest release. http://www.xfree86.org/ has some pretty easy to find lists of supported cards using the Mach64 server... Someone please correct me if my memory failed. :) Robert Schlotterbeck On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matt Holmes wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an Asus F7400 laptop, which has the ATI Rage Pro LT graphics > chipset... I cannot get Xfree to work with this card... > > I have tried some of the Linux XConfig files out there... none of which > work... Most of these seem to include a kernel patch also, so can't be > applied to Freebsd... > > I can't see enough of the screen to allow me to log in, and run the vid > tune prog... As far as I can tell, after I enter my user ID and > password, it goes off and does something for a couple of seconds, then > puts me back at the log in prompt. > > So does anyone know of a fix for this? Is anyone looking at this > chipset already? > > Is support for this chipset likely in Xfree 3.3.3.4? I know it is not > mentioned on the xfree site... > > If not, where do I need to start in creating one?... Put simply, I am a > programmer with plenty of commercial Unix experience, but mainly client > server programming, and absolutely no X programming knowledge... So is > there any information, or clues anyone can point me at that would be > relevant? Oh and I am new to FreeBSD... > > I get the impression I will need to do a lot of digging on this one... > > cheers > > Matt > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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