matt ---
bless you.
eight months is a long time.
i bought 4 of these things in march,
been working on it off and on since then,
put in a good 30 hours just this saturday and sunday,
and some more this morning.
since there are no 132 column modes on this card,
it has been trying.
oddly enough, i had tried the [almost] exact
'moonbuggy' approach this morning
[ and, yes, i found your link didn't get me there ].
however, i didn't think to lie about the chip.
the ati site said the chip was the 'VR'.
now that i can read the pci probe, i learn it is an 'SM'
[ of --all-- the two-letter combinations ;-) ].
so i had: Chipset "... VR ...".
replacing VR with RF solved it.
next: vidcontrol the mouse on and off
did not solve the device busy error.
looking at /dev, i tried changing
"option" "device" "/dev/psm0" to
"option" "device" "/dev/mouse".
eureka --- x launches; but the mouse is bogus.
looking at various xf86config examples, i tried changing
"option" "protocol" "ps/2" to
"option" "protocol" "auto".
eureka eureka --- IT'S ALIVE.
these were legacy settings from 3.3.various.
they worked back then.
i'm running 4.1.0 on freebsd 4.2.
i have 4.4, i just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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so, tonight, since i am still in a holiday mood,
in fact, even more so than on thursday,
i will give thanks both for your existence
and for your prompt reply.
thanks also to 'moonbuggy'.
then i will do what i was going to do on friday morning,
as i do every year on thanksgiving friday:
i will listen as arlo guthrie
relates the story of alice's restaurant
and the several thanksgiving dinners
that couldn't be beat.
with feeling.
after all, this year, there's a war on.
long life, good health, much happiness
rob spellberg
harvard, illinois
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