From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 21:37:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE40F16A400 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC3013C487 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6221A4D80; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C97D751406; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:37:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:37:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Derek Ragona Message-ID: <20070419213713.GA84766@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070419161814.02542828@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070419161814.02542828@mail.computinginnovations.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Missing all video drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:37:14 -0000 --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--