From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 3 2:45:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trident.univ-lehavre.fr (trident.univ-lehavre.fr [193.48.167.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420B714D03 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 02:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erik@univ-lehavre.fr) Received: from sparc10.univ-lehavre.fr (sparc10.univ-lehavre.fr [193.48.167.1]) by trident.univ-lehavre.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03676; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:44:08 +0200 Received: from univ-lehavre.fr (f40.univ-lehavre.fr [194.254.109.24]) by sparc10.univ-lehavre.fr (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA05552; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:45:14 +0100 (WET DST) Message-ID: <377DDB79.9B0E88DB@univ-lehavre.fr> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 11:44:25 +0200 From: Erik de Zeeuw X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john_barrow@email.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Riva TNT video card with XFree86 References: <990703015545C5.18268@www3.iname.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm running Xfree86 perfectly with a Riva TNT chipset. My card is a Diamond Viper 550, and I'm using XFree86 v3.3.3.1, but the v3.3.3 does support this chipset too. My box is a FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, but I had no troubles with previous versions ( 2.2.8, 3.1 ) if XFree86 is installed with right version. My ideas about that are that you should look at the XFree86 version you are using, and if it's older than 3.3.3, then you should get the last version; next, if the version is good, you should look at the server you installed. The Riva TNT support is done with the SVGA server, XF86_SVGA, so make sure this is the one you're using. If it still does not work, you should look at the exact chipset your board have, and look at the Xfree web pages if it's supported. I don't know anything about the Riva TNT2 support. Hope this will help, Erik john_barrow@email.com wrote: > > I am a 2 day old newbie with FreeBSD. > > I cannot properly configure my video card for use with XFree86 - even after going to the site to see details around this card. > > The best resolution I an get is something like 300 X 200. > > I dont know where to go from here - any ideas? > > Thanks for your help. > > John > > ----------------------------------------------- > FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com > Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message