From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 17 07:26:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00607 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lachman.com (genesis.lachman.com [192.35.52.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00575 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satwant@lachman.com) Received: from ra.lachman.com (ra.lachman.com [192.35.52.29]) by lachman.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA05548; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:25:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from satwant.i88 (satwant.lachman.com) by ra.lachman.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22867; Fri, 17 Jul 98 09:25:11 CDT Received: from localhost by satwant.i88 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA02324; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:21:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:21:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Satwant To: Gary Hall Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up X-Windows In-Reply-To: <35AF5528.ED558AFC@mcg-graphics.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had similar problems with xf86config. I did not have your kind of video card. But I found that using XF86Setup instead of xf86config lets you visually try out various options and play with your settings a lot easier. I am succesfully running X now. I have 2.6. -Satwant. On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Gary Hall wrote: > I am having problems running xf86config for xfree86. We cannot find the > answer on the web site so I wonder if anyone else can help. We have an > SIS6326 AGP video card but when we run the setup we cannot see our video > card in the list so we choose a similar one. When we try to run XWindows > all we get is a 300 x 200 display, although we have selected 800 x 600 > at 16 bpp. If we try and specify a switch when starting xwindows (ie. > startx -- -bpp16 we get the error "SVGA: PCI: SISunknown chipset > (0x6326) rev 195. It then says SVGA chipset generic, SVGA video ram 64k > and SVGA clocks 25.18 and SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset > (but we know it is, as it is a new 4MB card). > > Does anyone have any suggestions for us ? > > Thanks > > > 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