From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 12:32:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay13.dc2.adelphia.net (smtprelay13.dc2.adelphia.net [64.8.50.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF5237B401 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 12:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sampson.gaspeak-p-va.prestige.net ([68.65.62.167]) by smtprelay13.dc2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GW0JLR00.MOF; Sun, 12 May 2002 15:32:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Gerald A. Speak" Reply-To: gaspeak@va.prestige.net To: Spork , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.0 + ATI problems Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:32:14 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20020509183930.R10628-100000@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <20020509183930.R10628-100000@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200205121532.14229.gaspeak@va.prestige.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:49 pm, Spork wrote: > Hello, > > I took my first stab on a new workstation with XFree86 4.2.0 out of the > ports collection. This is FreeBSD 4.6-Prerelease via cvsup. Video card > is an ATI "WinPro", which the X server calls a generic Mach64. > > My past experiences with X were early 4.x versions and 3.x versions, where > you had to build your own config file with the included xf86config > utility. I noticed on this version that the config util is built in to > the server and it generates it's own very very brief config, with most > values probed at runtime. > > X currently sees this as a Mach64 card and uses the ATI driver, not the > generic VGA driver. It does work, with a few bad quirks: > > -redraw is very very slow. move a window and it trails > -by default it goes to the max resolution of the monitor (the next step > beyond 1280x1024) > -setting the "virtual" line in each color depth subsection to my preferred > 1024x768 causes the server to go to 256 color mode > -if I comment out the lower color depths with the virtual screen setting, > leaving 16bpp and 24bpp, the server will not start > > Any ideas? This thing seems to have changed quite a bit since I last > played with it. I've had the same card working as desired in older revs > of XFree. Try adding: DefaultDepth 24 To your Screens seciton of your XF86Config > > I simply want to force it to go 16 or 24bpp @1024x768 or 1280x1024. It > really wants to go a step higher and gets upset when I crank the > resolution down. > > Any ideas? I've poked around the docs on xfree86.org, but I'm not finding > a good general setup guide. > > Thanks, > > Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message