From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 14:12:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A01216A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lewis.lclark.edu (www.pnacac.org [149.175.1.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8276F43FD7 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from [149.175.34.27] ([149.175.34.27]) by lewis.lclark.edu (SAVSMTP 3.1.1.32) with SMTP id M2003102314122812657 ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:12:28 -0700 From: Eric Anholt To: James Tanis In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023165140.01bc8830@pop.charter.net> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023165140.01bc8830@pop.charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1066943549.662.13.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:12:30 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Current and XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:12:43 -0000 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 The snap is slightly out of date due to problems getting 4.2.99.14 building (the monolithic nature of XFree86 is a major issue for maintaining these ports), but it should include radeon 9800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