From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 09:53:49 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 9E04E16A4CE; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C0E43D1D; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38832A8DA; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE2EE29E; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4IGrVNr013032; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4IGrVqe013031; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:31 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <0ac901c43cb1$c9ba6350$471b3dd4@dual> In-Reply-To: <0ac901c43cb1$c9ba6350$471b3dd4@dual> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405180953.31412.peter@wemm.org> cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: Willem Jan Withagen Subject: Re: XFree86 vesa and radeon 9600 driver voor AMD64 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: Tue, 18 May 2004 16:53:49 -0000 On Tuesday 18 May 2004 01:26 am, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Hi, > > Was there any particular reason why the vesa is not included in the > ISO 5.2.1 CD package.... The vesa module uses vm86 or bios calls from the kernel. Those are not possible in a 64 bit kernel. > I have an ATI radeon 9600 video card, and that driver seems to be > the only one I can get X to work with on amd64.... > Next to the fact that configuration of it, is horribly simple. > And thus would be a good target to get people quick online with a > simple XConfig. I had to use a newer XFree86 that had updated drivers for my radeon 7000. It wasn't pretty, to say the least. I currently run this at home: vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc vendor release number: 40400000 XFree86 version: 4.4.0 But.. I had to do unspeakable things to it to make it compile. The XFree86 folks really truely screwed things up. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5