Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:30:36 -0700 From: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@btc.adaptec.com> To: "'Jordan Hubbard'" <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Configuring XFree 4 (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile dispatch.c dist.c install.c menus.c sysinstall.8) Message-ID: <CEDF5AA24668244F8D529010E2955A940A7623@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan Hubbard [mailto:jkh@winston.freebsd.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:05 PM > To: Murray Stokely > Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey; David E. O'Brien; cvs-committers@freebsd.org; > cvs-all@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Configuring XFree 4 (was: cvs commit: > src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile dispatch.c dist.c install.c menus.c > sysinstall.8) > > > > xf86cfg uses "XFree86 -configure" to detect the hardware before > > entering graphical mode, then allows you to edit the configuration > > file that is generated. > > Oh yeah, I think I've mentioned this before but just to bring it back > into focus so we're not blind-sided by other reports, XFree86 4.x will > bring you to grief if you have one of those Athlon-based Compaq > machines, and possibly one of their Intel based models (but I can't > personally verify that which use the following on-board graphical > chipset: > > pci1: <S3 model 8a26 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 3 > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x134d, dev=0x7897) at 4.0 irq 10 > According to http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html, this is probably an S3 ProSavage KM133. My guess is that's it sits on one of those wonderful, high quality VIA-chipset motherboards. As a wild guess, try taking the agp driver out of the picture and see what happens. If it still freaks out, the owner of the above URL is pretty responsive, and is friendly toward FreeBSD. I've had pretty good luck with just doing 'XFree86 -configure' and then tweaking the resulting config file, but I've been playing with XFree86 since before it was called XFree86. I agree that xf86cfg is worthless, and that there really aren't any good tools out there, not even for Linux. I'd be happy to work on contract to write one, though =-) Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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