From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 7:12:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.keycomp.net (www.keycomp.net [207.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376F115500 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billieakay@yahoo.com) Received: from bopper (kc-rmt01.keycomp.net [207.44.1.3]) by www.keycomp.net (8.8.5/SCO5) with SMTP id KAA26913; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004301bee402$2ffc8b60$01010101@bopper> From: "Bill A. K." To: "NON-DODGY EMAIL" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:02:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: NON-DODGY EMAIL To: Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 7:48 AM > > 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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message