Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:30:49 -0400 From: Clendaniel Ian IB <ian.clendaniel@phwilm.zeneca.com> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: XF86 with Neomagic Chipset... Message-ID: <c=GB%a=TMAILUK%p=ZENECA%l=USUWPHMSX10-980529203049Z-31162@usuwphmsxhub02.usuwph.zeneca.com>
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>>Make sure you're using the VGA16 driver. It may not work for it either, I >>haven't tried it on my machine which has the same chipset. Yup...that's the one. It just freezes when it tries to bring up the server. I tried reinstalling it again and now it puts up the first page of initialization messages and stops after the line: (**) MONO: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor" I'm going to try to manually configure X like with all my other machines...we'll see if I have any other luck that way...not used to this new-fangled GUI XF86Setup... >> It has the Neomagic 128ZV chipset and I'm trying to get it set up so >> that I can try the XiG X-server which supports the chipset. > >You don't set up XFree86 to set up XiG; they are *completely*separate*. I tried just setting this up and it won't run the mouse...or rather the mouse doesn't respond to movement correctly. as soon as you touch the touchpad the mouse shoots to the side of the screen, never to move again (except for a little twitching). Oh...just FYI...does the exact same thing on both of the laptops. >--Ian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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