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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Clift" <fclift@verio.net>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>; "Schroeder, Aaron"
<Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>; <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core


> > 'startx' brings up X windows with twm but the picture quality is
really
> > bad.  It's bad at all resolutions and color depths.  Are there any
> > specific settings in the X config file that I should look for?
>
>
> I just put my v4 config from my alpha box with a millenium II card at
>
> ftp://ftp.clift.org/XF86Config.4.mII
>
> if you want to take a look at it....

Thanks.  So far so good.  I found that my poor picture quality was from
specifying the wrong memory amount.  I thought I had a 4M card but I
guess it's only 2M.  Now that I have that set and selected an
appropriate color depth, everything looks good.

Thanks for your help!

Drew


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