FreeBSD and Trident 3dimage975 video card

[clayton rollins]

On July 26, 2004, "Hasan Kacmaz" <hkacmaz at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>G'day
>My first attempt at *nix and tried to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my
>Cel-333 box (324mb sdram/3x6gb hdd).
>I also have a Trident 3dimage975 AGP video card on it which doesn't seem
>to like it.. I couldn't get the x to work on it..
>Is there a fix or a way around this problem?
>
>Also, I've got 3 x 6GB hdd and wanted to install FreeBSD as the sole OS
>on this system on all these hdd... what is the best efficient way to
>partition them?
>
>cheers
>

Hi,

Before I say anything, I should point out that all questions should be
sent to the freebsd-questions mailing list.[1] My comments here are
limited to the official documentation.

As for the video card...
>apropos trident
trident(4)               - Trident video driver
>man trident
[snip]
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
       The trident driver supports PCI,AGP and ISA video cards  based  on  
the
       following Trident chips:
[snip]
       Image       3DImage975,  3DImage985,  Cyber9520,  Cyber9525, 
Cyber9397,
                   Cyber9397DVD
[snip]

Refer to the XF86Config man page if you simply want to edit
the file rather than using one of the x setup tools. (I found it
much easier...)

HD layout is, in my opinion, a personal matter... (What do you
want to do with them? freebsd should exist happily on a 6G
drive... maybe mount the extras as /usr/home and /usr/ports...
I'll leave the decisions up to you, though.)

HTH,
Clayton

[1] http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/

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