Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:43:07 +0200 From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> To: "Tilman Linneweh" <arved@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 vesa and radeon 9600 driver voor AMD64 Message-ID: <0e6e01c43da7$383dbf20$471b3dd4@dual> References: <0ac901c43cb1$c9ba6350$471b3dd4@dual><200405180953.31412.peter@wemm.org> <20040518175101.GA44139@arved.at>
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Very good suggestion..... XFree86-4-Server compiles without much ado Needed to get dri as well. but now running a 4.4.0 Xserver and getting my Radeon 9600 supported. Thanx, --WjW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tilman Linneweh" <arved@freebsd.org> To: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:51 PM Subject: Re: XFree86 vesa and radeon 9600 driver voor AMD64 > * Peter Wemm [Di, 18 Mai 2004 at 18:53 GMT]: > >> I have an ATI radeon 9600 video card, and that driver seems to be > >> the only one I can get X to work with on amd64.... > >> Next to the fact that configuration of it, is horribly simple. > >> And thus would be a good target to get people quick online with a > >> simple XConfig. > > > > I had to use a newer XFree86 that had updated drivers for my radeon > > 7000. It wasn't pretty, to say the least. > > > > I currently run this at home: > > vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc > > vendor release number: 40400000 > > XFree86 version: 4.4.0 > > > > But.. I had to do unspeakable things to it to make it compile. The > > XFree86 folks really truely screwed things up. > > The main problems, __AMD64__ vs __amd64__, were fixed after 4.4.0 release > (Both in XFree86 and X.org). > > I run 4.4.0 on my amd64 from the ports Dejan Lesjak submitted > <http://www.ijs.si/software/stuff/xfree44-ports_20040510.tar.gz>; > > regards > tilman > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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