Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:05:52 -0500 From: Prashant Dongre <pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Yanestra <Yanestra@t-online.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with X-Server SVGA Message-ID: <34143070.4E799998@opentech.stpn.soft.net> References: <m0x7cHL-0003CMC@fwd11.btx.dtag.de> <19970907180217.48910@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 10:01:00AM +0200, Yanestra wrote: > > Dear people from freebsd.org, > > > > I have switched from Linux (Debian distribution) to FreeBSD 2.2.2. > > Congratulations :-) > > > In the efforts of switching to FreeBSD, I first tried to download > > all the necessary files from an ftp server and put them on floppy > > disk. When I was finished, fourteen hours after I had started, I > > had to discover that the installation program on the first disk was > > unable to read my floppies. It seems that nowhere is any comment on > > how the disks have to look like, neither does the installation > > program say anything about this. It simply terminates its attempts > > to read any media after one try! > > To be fair, in almost all the documentation we warn against using > floppies, and that you should format all floppies before using. I > personally think you should discard all floppies before using, and get > a CD-ROM instead. > > > I think this behaviour and the whole situation is quite annoying. > > So do I. > > > Now I have bought a copy of FreeBSD on a Walnut Creek CD-ROM, and I > > have no problems with this media. > > The best thing that you could do. > > > But I would like to consult you on another problem. I have an old ISA > Cirrus > > Logic graphics card (542x, the last number always differs, depending on who > you > > ask), and I have used it long time with the Linux XF86_SVGA server without > any > > problems. Now I went to setup the X server on my new FreeBSD installation, > by > > starting XF86Setup. It worked well, as usual. But when I type "startx" I > get > > the usual bunch of messages, and the last one says, "clgd5420: invalid > chipset". > > Can you tell me the reason for this? > > It has to be a congfiguration problem. The XFree86 under FreeBSD is > the same as under Linux. I would guess that you've linked the wrong > server. If that's not the case, why don't you compare your XF86Config > with the one you used under Linux? > > > I have no idea, and since the source code (in the modified form) is > > not available, I can't even guess. > > Of course the source code is available. But it would certainly be > heavy going to look for this problem in the source. > > Greg Hello Guys, I have had the same problem to run XF86_SVGA server under Cirrus Logic graphics card but on 5446 and not 542X. What I found out is that the config file the setup program generates has one problem and that is it puts up clock setting in there... Just take out this line OR comment it out and you are up with XF86_SVGA on Cirrus Logic card... I think the error message "clgd5420: invalid chipset". comes there becuase the Cirrus Logic graphics card 542X does not support clock chip probe..... Good Luck !!!.. and let me know if you solve the problem.... Prashant.
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