From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 14:42:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r11.mx.aol.com (imo-r11.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F167937B503 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from User151038@aol.com by imo-r11.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id n.a.8bc68e0 (3706) for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:42:44 -0500 (EST) From: User151038@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:42:44 EST Subject: Problems with FreeBsd 4.0 To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 114 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 2/12/01 To FreeBSD Support or Sales: I have successfully partitioned my 10GB hard drive on my HP 6540c system, and have FreeBSD version 4.0 running, along with Windows 98, and several versions of Linux. However, after weeks of trying, including studying the manual, I have been unable to get the Xfree86 GUI to display in FreeBSD at any resolution but 320x204. Red Hat 6.2 Linux, on the other hand, runs properly in the 640x480 or 800x600 modes. It is obviously, using the same hardware. Version 3.3.6 of Xfree86 is used in both operating systems You may not be aware, that in this model HP, the video card is implemented in an Intel i810 chipset on the motherboard, and Red Hat has provided a special version of the SVGA driver, as well as a software module called 'agpgart.o' to solve the problem. I have also tried, unsuccessfully, to move this software to the Slackware 7.1 version of Linux. I suspect that the kernel may be involved, but I am using the 2.2.16-3 kernels. All this leads to my reason for writing, and this is, to ask the question, whether FreeBSD versions 4.1 or 4.2 will fix this problem? I would like to buy the update CDROM package, if it would work, and I don't need another copy of the same manual. HP has been selling a lot of this and other models that use this chipset for the last year, so you may have an answer. Respectively, Bill Wray User151038@AOL.com 714-817-9042 2026 W. Lafayette Dr. Anaheim CA. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message