XFree86 and Gnome 2.4

[Chris Faulhaber]

On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 04:11:57AM +0100, Bin Ren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can install XFree86 4.3 by binary. But I can only find 'vga' driver 
> to work
> for my ATI Radeon 9600. I tried both 'vesa' and 'ati' but both with 
> error
> 'no screen found. no device driver ...' With 'vga' driver, the 
> resolution is
> formidable '640x480'. Any suggestion for ATI users?
> 
> With 5.2-current i386 version, I use 'vesa' as XFree86 version and with
> resolution 1280x1024.
> 

Newer Radeons require XFree >= 3.99.x.  Try either using the
x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap port or compile the recent
XFree 4.4.0 release manually.

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