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Subject: Re: VESA driver in X
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On Sunday 08 February 2004 21:21, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > 	I solved it -- the XFree86 package somehow doesn't include some of
> > the video driver modules. Removing the package and installing from
> > ports gave me the ability to use the VESA driver.
>

In regards to ATI Radeon support... it's worth noting that if you build 
4.3.99.x (by hand or otherwise) the "radeon" driver will work... which is 
much better than using the vesa driver.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]
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