Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:37:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Missing all video drivers Message-ID: <20070419213713.GA84766@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070419161814.02542828@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <AECFBF5B646DA1EB76795F8E@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <6.0.0.22.2.20070419161814.02542828@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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--7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:19:47PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 02:07 PM 4/19/2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >If a fresh install is missing *all* the video drivers except vga, what= =20 > >went wrong? > > > >My box has a boatload of drivers; s3-virge, radeon, ati, etc. This new= =20 > >install (6.2 RELEASE) has *no* video drivers at all. > > > >Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > >Senior Information Security Analyst > >The University of Texas at Dallas > >http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ >=20 >=20 > You specify what X drivers/X servers in a separate part of sysinstall. I= n=20 > all likelihood you choose only the generic vga option. Er, not for about the last 7 years I think ;) Anyway, OP needs to provide some actual details of what he did and what is wrong. I suspect he's a bit confused about something, e.g. FreeBSD doesn't install video drivers (apart from the drm modules), they are part of X. Kris --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGJ+EJWry0BWjoQKURAmYGAJ0c2jrRGCDEHUMmAv7XkMyZ5ahG2QCgv+Pk OHacUrCN333hrh7uiDHSEAs= =xSju -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--
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