Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:55:55 -0400 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Voodoo 5 difficulties Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011023204522.00c22e60@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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Howdy--I posted this from work, and judging from the mail daemon response, there was a problem due to it being a different smtp server, so if this shows up 3 times, I do apologize. At any rate, I've been trying to get a Voodoo5 card to work. My first search indicated that the Voodoo3 driver would do it--no luck, just hung when I typed startx. So, searching between deja, freebsd.org questions and hardware, a few other sites which these searches indicated might be helpful and Xfree86's website, I wound up doing the following: used cvsup to upgrade to the most current stable---hrrm, that sounds like an oxymoron,but anyway... Installed XFree 4.x Installed glide3 Installed drm-kmod Edited the XF86Config file--uncommented the glx module line, added a dri module line, added a DRI section changing its mode to 0666. Referenced the Device as Voodoo5 with a tdfx driver--referenced the device in the Screen section. Added agp_load="YES" to /boot.conf (after doing that, it began indicating upon boot up that it was loading the tdfx driver). When I did startx the machine simply rebooted---no entry in /var/log/XFree86.0.log I think that's all I've done. The problem is that if I go with generic VGA I can only get 320x whatever it is. I don't need 3d, I simply want an X interface adequate for opening a few xterms, or for looking at a web page with instructions while I do something or another. xf86cfg hangs the machine. XF86Setup actually opens with a pretty good resolution, but after finishing says it's unable to start X. I tried (having no idea if it would work, simply going by Linux experience) using a vesa, rather than vega driver which just froze the keyboard. :) So, if anyone has gotten it to work, aside from simply having luck by using the Voodoo3 driver, I'd be grateful for the steps they took. Sorry about the length of this, and again, I apologize if it winds up appearing more than once. Scott Robbins I imagine that I've either missed or added something unecessary here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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