XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.2.1

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 22 08:57:32 PDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Moody, Bill wrote:
> I have just purchaced a new 64bit laptop and have installed the 64bit
> version of 5.2.1 FreeBSD on it.  I am having a difficult time getting the X
> server to work properly though.

What model laptop?
 
> The laptop has an Radeon 9600 chipset in it.  This is not supported via a
> normal server as of yet.  I was able to get Linux to install properly using
> the standard VESA driver and the FrameBuffer driver.  These interfaces do
> not appear to be available on  this distrobution.

Try the XFree86-Server-4.3.99.15_2 version in
/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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