Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:21:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Satwant <satwant@lachman.com> To: Gary Hall <gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up X-Windows Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980717091912.2306F-100000@satwant.lachman.com> In-Reply-To: <35AF5528.ED558AFC@mcg-graphics.com>
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I had similar problems with xf86config. I did not have your kind of video card. But I found that using XF86Setup instead of xf86config lets you visually try out various options and play with your settings a lot easier. I am succesfully running X now. I have 2.6. -Satwant. On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Gary Hall wrote: > I am having problems running xf86config for xfree86. We cannot find the > answer on the web site so I wonder if anyone else can help. We have an > SIS6326 AGP video card but when we run the setup we cannot see our video > card in the list so we choose a similar one. When we try to run XWindows > all we get is a 300 x 200 display, although we have selected 800 x 600 > at 16 bpp. If we try and specify a switch when starting xwindows (ie. > startx -- -bpp16 we get the error "SVGA: PCI: SISunknown chipset > (0x6326) rev 195. It then says SVGA chipset generic, SVGA video ram 64k > and SVGA clocks 25.18 and SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset > (but we know it is, as it is a new 4MB card). > > Does anyone have any suggestions for us ? > > Thanks > > > 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
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