Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:02:44 -0400 From: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com> To: "NON-DODGY EMAIL" <ckas@ecr.mu.oz.au>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <004301bee402$2ffc8b60$01010101@bopper> References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.990811214043.875119A-100000@gromit.ecr.mu.oz.au>
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Hi,
There is a Banshee X Server for Linux, that has been ported to NetBSD,
but I haven't had any luck getting it to run on FreeBSD.
However, the latest version of XFree86 (3.3.4) supports the Banshee
natively, but here's the catch: At the moment I think that they only have
binaries for FreeBSD 3.x
I am running FreeBSD 3.2 with XFree86 3.3.4, with a Diamond Viper 550 card
and it works perfect and the Banshee is in the card list.
You will have to get FreeBSD 3.2 (which comes with XFree86 3.3.3.1 I
believe) and download XFree86 3.3.4 Thats what I did. If you have a
Windows system available and a means to get the files to your FreeBSD system
(e.g. CD-RW or something), the easiest way to download X is on Windows,
rather than doing it on a non working FreeBSD system.
I would recommend that you upgrade the next chance you get.
Bill
billieakay@yahoo.com
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>
> Hi guys (and girls I assume...!)
>
> I actually have FreeBSD 2.2.6 installed (I know...It's really old), and
> since I am a student, I really can't afford the downtime in order to
> upgrade to the current version at the moment. I did however, just buy a
> Voodoo Banshee 3Dfx card for the machine, and as you well know, it is not
> supported. I was wondering what you may suggest might be the fastest and
> most feasable way to get my Xserver back up... As far as I know, there
> arne't any precompiled "Banshee" XServers floating around, that will work
> with a version of XF86 which is so old, but if I am wrong, could you
> please tell me where they are... Any solutions to my problem would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> P.S. Does the latest version of FreeBSD ( I think it's 3.2 ) support the
> Banshee chipset...?
>
> Thanks very much for your time,
> Chris Kasapis.
>
>
>
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