From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue May 16 10:34:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from itchy.serv.net (itchy.serv.net [205.153.153.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C995337BB0A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from utz@itchy.serv.net) Received: from localhost (utz@localhost) by itchy.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA60099; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:22 -0700 (PDT) From: The Utz Family To: Randall Hopper Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fxtv on XFree86 4.0 - Who's having trouble? In-Reply-To: <20000515201444.A3984@ipass.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hey! tnx for the kernel defines! that shmat() stuff has been annoying the hell outta' me! now, all i havbe to do is figure out why i have to use noaccel and sw_cursor with my PC-CHIPS SiS 6326 AGP chipset On Mon, 15 May 2000, Randall Hopper wrote: > The semester is over and I've got free time again. So I'm soliciting any > problems folks are having with XFree86 4.0. > > I installed it several days ago, and after XFree86 is configured (and > FreeBSD is configured for XFree86), Fxtv seems to work pretty well. DGA, > no problems. (The only oddity is that full-screen zoom doesn't center the > viewport and grab the mouse). > > Here's what I did: > > > 1) XFree86 -configure (let X generate your XF86Config) > > 2) kernel (works around XFree86-Bigfont...: shmat() failed errors): > options SHMALL=1025 > options SHMMAX="(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)" > options SHMMAXPGS=1025 > options SHMMIN=2 > options SHMMNI=256 > options SHMSEG=128 > > 3) Mod XF86Config > a) Configure Monitor and FontPath's to taste > b) Add "DefaultDepth 16" (or other) to Screen section > c) Set up Weight and Modes preferences for the DefaultDepth. > > > Then just "startx". No -cc 4, visual specs, other req'd. > > -- > Randall Hopper > aa8vb@ipass.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message