From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 11:12:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07077 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06907 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20309; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:11:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA25370; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:30:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810161430.PAA25370@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mark cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: neomagic In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:38:16 CDT." <362608D8.8C31380B@ghgcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:30:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just purchased a dell inspiron 3200 and would like to run freebsd > instead of linux. I've researched the neomagic/X problem and have a > running X-server using the redhat binary for this chips set. So why am > I writing and wasting bandwidth? I was wondering this: If I switch to > freebsd would I be able to use the linux emulator to run the redhat > binary X-server? Or would I simply be better off applying the neomagic > patch to the X source and recompiling? Or should I just do both and > then announce my findings? There are instructions on http://www.Awfulhak.org/software.html saying how to patch & bring up X on a Neomagic chipset under FreeBSD. I would have said that that's your best bet.... > mark -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message