Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:12:30 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: James Tanis <jtanis@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Current and XFree86 Message-ID: <1066943549.662.13.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023165140.01bc8830@pop.charter.net> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023165140.01bc8830@pop.charter.net>
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On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:59, James Tanis wrote: > I'm having problems with XFree86 that result from the fact that > the ATI Radeon 9800 is not supported by the current 4.3.0 radeon driver. I > would like to upgrade to current/cvs version of XFree86, 4.3.99 since the > next release isn't going to be for around another 2 months. My question is, > what is the most flawless way to do this? Is there a FreeBSD concentric > repository, or should I just get the sources from the standard XFree86 cvs > repository? Is there a place where I can instead get frequently updated > ports of the repository? Building from source is there any configure > switches that I need to successfully build? Last but not least is it > possible to build only the radeon drivers and use those in 4.3.0.. if so, > how do I go about doing that? I had some problems when I only downloaded > the graphics drivers module. > Thanks for any Please use XFree86-4-Server-snap if you are looking for CVS X Server. The snap is slightly out of date due to problems getting 4.2.99.14 building (the monolithic nature of XFree86 is a major issue for maintaining these ports), but it should include radeon 9800 support. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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