From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 15:16:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monica.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de (monica.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de [193.175.197.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D56437B756 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 15:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hank@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de) Received: from musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de (reserve.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de [193.175.197.95] (may be forged)) by monica.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16067 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:16:49 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de [127.0.0.1]) by musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA25376 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:16:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hank@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de) Message-Id: <200006092216.AAA25376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dirk Gouders Subject: XFree86 3.3.6 and ATI Rage 128 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:16:54 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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