Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:02:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Yanestra <Yanestra@t-online.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with X-Server SVGA Message-ID: <19970907180217.48910@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <m0x7cHL-0003CMC@fwd11.btx.dtag.de>; from Yanestra on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 10:01:00AM %2B0200 References: <m0x7cHL-0003CMC@fwd11.btx.dtag.de>
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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
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