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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Thomas Spreng <spreng@socket.ch>
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Subject: Re: revert back to i386 arch
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:52:38PM +0200, Thomas Spreng wrote:
> 
> Therefore I'd like to recompile my system back to i386 since my gfx card
> should be supported on that arch. Using CPUTYPE=p4 and TARGET_ARCH=i386
> arguments on buildworld and buildkernel targets should do the trick,
> right?

No, it won't work.  Well, it could work, but you better know
what you are doing.  It would be less painful to re-install
from scratch.

> Or are there any other solutions for my problem?

Have you asked the Xorg developers about the card?
There could be a driver/support in Xorg's cvs tree.

-- 
Steve