From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 23:26:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B937C37C763 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ust@cert.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: ust@cert.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by david.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5A6QXR06280; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:26:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5A6QWX25516; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:26:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (reims.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.8 ]) with ESMTP id e5A6QWv09525; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:26:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ust@localhost) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/alaska [ $Revision: 1.4 ]) id e5A6QWv16417; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:26:32 GMT Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:26:32 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert To: Dirk Gouders Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.6 and ATI Rage 128 Message-ID: <20000610082632.A16331@alaska.cert.siemens.de> References: <200006092216.AAA25376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006092216.AAA25376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>; from gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de on Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 12:16:54AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 00:16:54 +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: > 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! Which patch do you mean? The fix-01-r128 is part of the current port. Although it is part, I still have some problems with XFree86 3.3.6. Which card do you have, and how many MBs are on it? -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message