From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 19 17:23:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5316037B413 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc by itouch.co.nz with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15jrcp-000EAn-00; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:23:31 +1200 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:23:31 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Sending Correspondence Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on installing X Windows ... ref:FreeBSD Documentation Message-ID: <20010920122331.A54042@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from netsource_corp@hotmail.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:50:04PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:50:04PM -0700, Sending Correspondence wrote: [...] > Checking the documentation - both FreeBSD and the XFree86.org, the problem > seems to be that the XFree86 4.x.x. does not support the S3Trio+ chipset of > my video card - however - the FreeBSD site *only* includes the XFree86 4.x, > and there is no mention of the XFree86 3.3.6 - You need to install the ports system, establish a 'Net connection and then: # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 # make # make install # make clean At this point, you'll have XFree86-3.3.6 installed, and you'll have to go thru' the yucky task of configuring XFree86 Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message