Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 01:57:46 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: hkacmaz@iinet.net.au, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Trident 3dimage975 video card Message-ID: <Sea1-F116cqGMOfEDMu00014f21@hotmail.com>
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On July 25, 2004, "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> wrote: > >On July 26, 2004, "Hasan Kacmaz" <hkacmaz@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>G'day >>My first attempt at *nix and tried to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my >>Cel-333 box (324mb sdram/3x6gb hdd). >>I also have a Trident 3dimage975 AGP video card on it which doesn't seem >>to like it.. I couldn't get the x to work on it.. >>Is there a fix or a way around this problem? >> >>Also, I've got 3 x 6GB hdd and wanted to install FreeBSD as the sole OS on >>this system on all these hdd... what is the best efficient way to >>partition them? >> >>cheers >> > >Hi, > >Before I say anything, I should point out that all questions should be sent >to the freebsd-questions mailing list.[1] My comments here are limited to >the official documentation. > >As for the video card... >>apropos trident >trident(4) - Trident video driver >>man trident >[snip] >SUPPORTED HARDWARE > The trident driver supports PCI,AGP and ISA video cards based on >the > following Trident chips: >[snip] > Image 3DImage975, 3DImage985, Cyber9520, Cyber9525, >Cyber9397, > Cyber9397DVD >[snip] > >Refer to the XF86Config man page if you simply want to edit >the file rather than using one of the x setup tools. (I found it >much easier...) > >HD layout is, in my opinion, a personal matter... (What do you >want to do with them? freebsd should exist happily on a 6G >drive... maybe mount the extras as /usr/home and /usr/ports... >I'll leave the decisions up to you, though.) > >HTH, >Clayton > >[1] http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ > Ooooooops... I grep'ed through the pkg-descr files to see if something from ports was required when writing this. To double check, I just grep'ed the plist files, and it seems you'll need an x11-server with the driver. I don't think I did anything special, wrt that, so it may already be on your system. If not, maybe someone from -questions can help you pick and install one of the ports. Regards, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/
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