Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:16:54 +0200 From: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: XFree86 3.3.6 and ATI Rage 128 Message-ID: <200006092216.AAA25376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
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Hi, I just solved some problem on my FreeBSD 4.0 machine and want to tell you about it, in case someone else has problems running XFree86 with a ATI Rage 128 video card (and I know there were such people). The problem was that there was a bug in the r128_accel driver that caused bar code like stuff to appear instead of readable text. (I tried to use XFree86 4.0 instead, but then after switching to a text console and back to the console running X I couldn't see anything at all.) What I then did was to get the full XFree86 3.3.6 source code and the patch for the r128_accel driver, applied the patch as discribed in the diff-file and ran make World without any modification of even one configuration file. After that everything turned out to work fine! I would be happy to learn if I could have done this with less effort and I am wondering if there isn't a way to replace the erroneous r128_accel driver on the FreeBSD site by the fixed one. Dirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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