Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:27:50 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= <jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X Windows Problem Message-ID: <000601bfe68d$336d6dd0$34dea4d8@beefstew> References: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D70267BFF5@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com>
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1. There's nothing wrong w/ATI cards. The ATI XPERT 2000 32MB for ~ $89 is an excellent value. 2. If the card is not supported - yet - swap in a different card which is supported. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jukka Similä <jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com> To: 'leegold' <goldtech@worldpost.com>; <WeServeU@northnet.org> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:45 AM Subject: RE: X Windows Problem > > I wouldn't recommend buying a new (older?) card just because some other is > not yet working. First you should try if Xfree 4.0.1 supports it. (Well, > only reason why I would recommend buying a new card is that now you have an > ati;) This is from readme for rage 128 cards: > > 4. Reported Working Video Cards > > o Rage Fury AGP 32MB > > o XPERT 128 AGP 16MB > > o XPERT 99 AGP 8MB > > There is a completely new driver for 128 cards in 4.0, and there seems to > be already 4.0.1 version.. > take a look at www.xfree86.org and mirror sites at > http://www.xfree86.org/MIRRORS.shtml > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am using an AMD K62 at 550, DFI Motherboard, 128 Megs of RAM. My > > > video card is a XPERT 2000 from ATI it uses the 128 bit > > graphics chip. > > > I am using Free BSD OS 4.0 and here is my problem. Under X Windows > > > using the SVGA server and using the R128 driver everything > > works fine. > > > However, fonts in terminal windows or fonts in the title > > bar of windows > > > and in pop-up windows won't display correctly. Their appearance > > > resembles bar codes and is completely unreadible. I have > > tried every > > > ATI 128 bit graphics card on the list and it makes no > > difference, same > > > result occurs. Under Free BSD OS 4.0 I have tried the VGA > > 16 server to > > > see if the problem occurs in that mode and it simple will > > not work no > > > matter how I have tried it. Under Free BSD 3.3 VGA 16 X > > Window server > > > works fine; I can see all the fonts and everything works perfectly. > > > However, there are no 128 bit drivers for ATI cards under > > BSD 3.3. BSD > > > 3.3 uses X windows version 3.35. BSD 4 uses X Window 3.36. > > I am utterly > > > > > > frustrated at this point with this problem because I don't > > know if it's > > > because my graphics card (ATI Xpert 2000) is not directly > > supported or > > > is it some other problem I am unaware of? > > > > > > Thank you for your time. > > > > > > Aaron P. Smith > > > weserveu@northnet.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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