Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:26:32 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.6 and ATI Rage 128 Message-ID: <20000610082632.A16331@alaska.cert.siemens.de> 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 %2B0200 References: <200006092216.AAA25376@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
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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
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