Need a HELP Lead .. For: xorg 6.8.2 - wont start

[Everett Batey]

Nickolas,
 I TRIED THAT .. first with vga in the device sections, then vesa, via, 
savage, sis and finally back to vga .. ONLY vga DID NOT produce an immediate 
EXIT -- stating NO SCREEN FOUND ... so NOW WHAT ???
 # The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this
section.

#XXXX vga XX vesa via savage sis
Driver "vga"


 On 6/14/05, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> On 6/14/05, Ev Batey WA6CRE <efbatey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [snipped (every thing)]
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> The KM400 uses the VIA S3 UniChrome. Try changing the driver section
> in the xorg.conf file to the via driver. "man via" for more info.
> Starting with a fresh xorg.conf file might be good idea too, "Xorg
> -configure". As far as the KM266 thingy, both FreeBSD and Xorg say
> it's a KM400 Chipset*.... see the bottom of my post. *sorry I allmost
> missed that, the system says it has a "CLE266", not a KM266. The
> CLE266 uses the UniChrome:
> 
> "(II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM: VIA CLE266"
> 
> ------------------------------------
> "MSI KM3M-V (VIA KM266, registers as KM400)"
> "Have an MSI KM3M-V KM266 (supposedly an S3 Savage like chip)."
> -------------------------------------
> ABI class: X.Org <http://X.Org> <http://x.org/> Video Driver, version 0.7
> (II) VIA(0): VESA BIOS detected
> (II) VIA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
> (II) VIA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 65536 kB
> (II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM: VIA CLE266
> 
> (II) VIA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 0.0
> (--) VIA(0): Chipset: "KM400"
> (--) VIA(0): Chipset Rev.: 132
> (II) VIA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 
> 0x0000
> (--) VIA(0): mapping MMIO @ 0xec000000 with size 0x9000
> (==) VIA(0): Write-combining range (0xec000000,0x9000) was already clear
> (--) VIA(0): mapping BitBlt MMIO @ 0xec200000 with size 0x10000
> (==) VIA(0): Write-combining range (0xec200000,0x10000) was already clear
> (II) VIA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 
> 0x0000
> 
> (==) VIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (--) VIA(0): videoram = 65536k
> -------------------------------------
> agp0: <VIA 8235/8237 (Apollo KM400/KM400A) host to PCI bridge> mem
> 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
> agp0: Reserved 0x8000000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xe0000000
> agp0: allocating GATT for aperture of size 256M
> -------------------------------------
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/legacy/km266/
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/k7-series/km400/
> 
> KM266 = S3 Graphics ProSavage8
> KM400 = UniChrome™ 2D/3D Graphics with motion compensation
> 



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