Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:30:49 -0500 From: He Who Urges Ampersands <arensb@cfar.umd.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Notebooks & FreeBSD/XFree86 Message-ID: <199603280230.VAA12765@sparta.cfar.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 08:08:53 PST." <199603271608.IAA06068@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: stein@ife.no (Stein Morten Sandbech)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 17:07:45 MET
> I'm planning to test the Texas Instruments 5000 series machines more, probabl
>> y
> after easter. I've just verified that FreeBSD 2.1 runs, but have no experienc
>> e
> with XFree86 as of now. I do expect some problem as these machies use a newer
> video chip from Cirrus Logic, the GD7542 (compatible with older CL chipsets?
> ... anyone ?)
FWIW, I have a TI Extensa 565CD, with a Cirrus 7543 PCI video
board. 'SuperProbe' complains that
Chipset: Cirrus (chipset unknown)
Signature data: 30 (please report)
Memory: 512 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit HiColor
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
I've gotten XFree86 to work in 640x480x256 SVGA mode with the following
device definition in XF86Config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Cirrus Logic 7543 PCI"
VendorName "Cirrus"
BoardName "7543 PCI"
VideoRam 1024
Chipset "clgd6235" # But seems to accept most
# other Cirrus chipsets
EndSection
--
Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy Center for Automation Research
arensb@cfar.umd.edu University of Maryland
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