Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:51:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: emachine: xfree86 problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990514004730.24694A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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So I recently picked up one of those $400 e-machines (http://www.e4me.com/). It seems to actually be a really decent machine. However I've been having some problems with X. AcceleratedX runs fine on its ATI 3D Rage IIc AGP board w/4mb RAM, but XFree86 has a strange problem where I get several copies of the display vertically, and the right side of the display is all wavy. I upgraded the 3.3.3 that came with 4.0-CURRENT to 3.3.3.1 since that is supposed to have better support for the card, but that didn't help. For some brief while this afternoon, for reasons I know not, it worked fine for about 6 hours. Then I rebooted and it is back to its current state. As I said, it appears to work fine in the XiG demo, but I only have a notebook license, not a desktop license so that doesn't help. Anyonw have any suggestions? I tried turning on the various options (fifo_conservative, etc) as well as trying the ChipId and ChipRev settings I found a few places on the web, and none seemed to help. X appears to probe it fine, but the display is just really sucky. Curiously, the hardware cursor looks fine.. :), even when on top of the snowy flickery bits of the display. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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