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Date:      25 Apr 2002 22:56:23 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86
Message-ID:  <1019793383.54782.2.camel@lerlaptop>
In-Reply-To: <20020426035328.GA1364@bsdguru.com>
References:  <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> <20020426033939.GA1193@bsdguru.com> <1019792604.10366.11.camel@lerlaptop>  <20020426035328.GA1364@bsdguru.com>

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On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:53, Ben Lovett wrote:
> I believe Larry Rosenman (ler@lerctr.org) scribbled this:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:39, Ben Lovett wrote:
> > > Tuc,
> > > 
> > > If you can get XFree86 4.2 to install (through ports or packages), you
> > > might try this: http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html
> > > 
> > > Note: I have not tried this as I have a supported video card in my Dell
> > > i8000, but from what I hear, it works..  Atleast with a GeForce2 Go..
> > Also, to get XFree86-4 to build I needed to go to the work directory 
> > of both XFree86-4-Libraries and XFree86-4-clients and start a Make World
> > once they start  building, just ctrl/c them, then restart the make for
> > XFree86-4. 
> 
> Hrm.  All I had to do to build XFree86 4.2 from ports was --
> 
>         cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 && make install clean
> 
> Nothing fancy there..  It will become a little more complicated when
> building it on a system with a GeForce2 Go video card, but all you
> should have to do is uninstall the X11 servers port, and rebuild it
> after patching..
It died for me, I filed a PR about it, but...

I just did this again for me at a friends house with a fresh -STABLE
build and a fresh ports tree. 

So, I dunno...


> 
> 8< snip irrelevant material >8
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ben
> -- 
> Ben Lovett 					     <blovett@bsdguru.com>
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