Very Computer

I haven't been able to get my 5434-based VLB card to work, either.
Until I figure out what the problem is I'm making do by telling the
SVGA rerver that it's a 5424.  I've tried XFree86-3.1 with no better
results than with 3.0, but I'm going to give it a nother try to be
sure that I didn't make a mistake installing it.

You can usually recover from that trashed console syndrome by running
setfont (just type it blindly on the hosed console.)  I invoke xinit
from a shell script that has the lines:

        setfont -o .savefont
        xinit
        setfont .savefont
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Jerry Kreuscher, MicroUnity Systems Engineering, 122 0 46 W, 37 24 10 N

  Has anyone gotten the Cirrus ALG5434 PCI card to work with
Linux?  It is one of the cards that comes with the Quantex P90
system.  I am using some of the older cirrus drivers and can get
Openwindows to load and work alright, but when I exit openwindows,the
screen is total garbage and I have to reboot.  There are strange symbols
in place of the normal text.  If you could point me in the right direction
of where to find updated drivers I would appreciate it greatly.  Thanks.

 Matt

I would suspect that your problem may not be the 5434, but rather the
PCI implementation.  I am running an ISA 5434 (a Diamond Speedstar 64)
and it runs fine on only XFree86 2.1.1.

Quote:>I haven't been able to get my 5434-based VLB card to work, either.
>Until I figure out what the problem is I'm making do by telling the
>SVGA rerver that it's a 5424.  I've tried XFree86-3.1 with no better
>results than with 3.0, but I'm going to give it a nother try to be
>sure that I didn't make a mistake installing it.

I had the same problems under XF 2.x.x but now under 3.1 when I quit X, the
text is only slightly corrupted.

My card is an Elite CL5434 PCI 2Mb.  (With a 1 meg version of the same card,
there was no problem at all.)  

Here are the main options from my XF86Config (v.3.1)

chipset "clgd5434"
videoram 2048
option "no_2mb_banksel"
option "fifo_aggressive"
option "favour_bitblt"

The only thing I can't get to work is the 16/32 bpp modes cos the server
can't find the PCI Membase of the card :(
If anyone knows what value might work, could you post it here, mail me.

Thanks,

Dreaming of TRUECOLOR X.... :)
_Piers_
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 PIERS LOMAX - Warwick University, Coventry, U.K.

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