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Subject: Re: 7.0-snap on iBook G4 + few questions
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:13:45PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
> >Second question: My iBook has a radeon graphics card. According to the
> >the freebsd ppc web site a special driver (radeon_driver.c) is needed.
> >Where should this file be put to be compiled? In the xorg source tree?
> 
>  In the /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/ port, do a 'make patch'.
> Then drop radeo_driver.c into
> 
>   work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/
> 
>  ... and 'make' as per normal.
> 
>  The patch was done a while back: I hope that it still does the right 
> thing, since the Xorg port has probably changed since then.

It worked on my iBook, using a ports tree from Nov 12. Xorg starts and works fine.

Christopher