From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 16 12:27:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5EF37B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp03.web.de [217.72.192.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78F143E58 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Lentfer@web.de) Received: from [80.129.118.21] (helo=floundjan.homeip.net) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.70 #5) id 17UXyY-0001jO-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:27:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 395E930E; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:27:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jan-alpha.lan (jan-alpha.lan [192.168.0.29]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with SMTP id 9A9C1209; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:27:01 +0200 From: Jan Lentfer To: "Schroeder, Aaron" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 on a PWS-500au Message-Id: <20020716212701.0046a6b2.Jan.Lentfer@web.de> In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E2778@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E2778@waexch1.qgraph.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; alpha-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:59:22 -0500 "Schroeder, Aaron" wrote: > Hello again, > > I got XFree86-4.2 compiled and installed on my system! That's the good news. > Now for the bad news: I cannot get the XServer to fire up. Heck, I can't > even get 'XFree86 -confiure' to fly. I did notice that upon installing the > new version that Matrox drivers were not fully tested, use at your own risk. > Well, I guess I am wondering a couple things: > > 1) How un-tested are the drivers? > 2) Has anyone gotten XFree86-4.2 working with a Matrox? > 3) If yes, how did you get it working? > > I guess this little adventure with XFree86 is getting a bit out of hand. :( What exact card do you have? I couldn't install a Matrox Millenium II, too. I replaced it with a 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 and it worked straight away. Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message