Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:43:18 -0800 From: "pan" <pan@syix.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: video card and X Message-ID: <003c01c17927$40b25900$2813933f@cat> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011129122307.4083A-100000@isua2.iastate.edu>
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> > Does anybody recognize this ATI video card? Any suggestions for an > appropriate driver to use with XFree86? I am running FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE. > > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/front.jpg > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/back.jpg > http://support.ati.com/identify/index.html You have a Xpert98 (XL version) 8 mB for X most likely uses Mach64 look at your dmesg output for something like pci1 <ATI Mach64-GB graphics accelerator> at 5.0 irq5 it's the Mach64 part that's important for X the card list in the configurator really only points to the chip. X servers are built to the chips - you can build many X servers on one box but only need the one for your video chip you will probably end up with XF86_Mach64, XF86_SVGA and XF86_VGA16 in /usr/X11R6/bin cross check this info at the ati website they have a good set of manuals, tech specs, etc., but they have a wonky marketing method of naming the same things in a lot of different ways. selecting horizontal & vertical hz for monitor is as important (if not more) - check the specs at the ati website hope this helps To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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