From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 27 08:42:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07548 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07427 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (tiburon [158.227.6.111]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA17446; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:36:36 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <36AF408E.8B35A675@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:36:30 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dept. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox m-2 and X References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randy Bush wrote: > > Am I correct that the best X driver for a > > vga0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci1.0.0 > > on AGP is the SVGA driver? > Yes. Include a "VideoRam XXXX" in the Device section of your XF86Config, specifying the exact amount of VideoRam your card has. For example, "VideoRam 8192" for a Millennium II with 8MB. The reason is that, sometimes, the SVGA Xserver fails when trying to detect the amount of VRAM installed, crashing the entire system. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message