From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 02:51:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D164216A53B for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:51:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8115A43D2F for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:51:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD8F6381; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:51:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85537-04; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:51:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 833F1637F; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:51:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4150E8B7.6010502@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:51:35 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040915) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith References: <4150BE7C.6080400@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4150BE7C.6080400@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.1.1 at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ATI and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:51:37 -0000 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I have a Del Inspiron 7500 which has an ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x > video card. XFree86-4.3 works excellently with it, but with XFree86-4.4 > or Xorg I just get a blank screen. I did a web search and it seems that > Linux users can use a VESA driver which might fix similar kinds of > problems. > > Well I am guessing that this might be an X issue rather than a FreeBSD > issue, but let me ask anyway (just for the record) - anyone here fixed > this kind of problem? > > Stephen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have an I7500 - I ran 4.9, 5.2.1 and not 5.3Beta5 and Xorg with all - zero issues here. I tend to think it's user defined. -- Best regards, Chris The source for an unattributed quotation will appear in the most hostile review of your work.