Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:06:32 +0100 From: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: radeon Message-ID: <000a01c55e0e$4e2d1e60$98edfea9@workstation> References: <000001c55daa$6d1fef00$98edfea9@workstation> <200505201951.36735.kstewart@owt.com>
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---- Original Message ---- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> Sent: Saturday, 21 May, 2005 03:51 Subject: Re: radeon > On Friday 20 May 2005 07:11 pm, .VWV. wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I was trying to move to RADEON-based cards, but I have no idea how to >> make them work with X servers. I have a mixed-up 4.7 and 4.11 system, >> with the kernel of the new one, and the X server of the old one. I >> have both the collection of ports available. > > When you are having problems, I find that you need to get consistant. > Your comment about kernel is scary because on FreeBSD you don't have a > different kernel and user land. You have 4.11 or 4-stable but not a > combo of both. No one will have a similar system to see what you can > do to fix a problem until you have a consistant system with what other > people are also running. > > If you are running a 4.11 system, you need to upgrade all of your > ports to 4.11. There is on the order of a year between the release of > 4.7 and 4.11. I have forgotten to write, I have made a full upgrade to 4.11 of the base system by means of sysinstall. The most part of the applications installed come from 4.7, but the system is a 4.11. Depending on the needs, I compile from both the ports collections, sometimes modifying them. I have never found problems, except with well-known broken apps. I'm often exhausted, therefore I forget what I am using, but the cause is definitely other than FreeBSD. I cannot stay without it, expecially for storage purposes. > >> I'm testing the Radeon chipsets from 9250 to 9800. > > The XFree86 Organization will have documentation on what cards it > supports. You will have to track them down and see what cards are > supported. The newer ones may only be fully supported on Xorg. That > doesn't work very well on 4.x and you should consider updating to > FreeBSD 5.4. There is an iso that you can download and burn on to CD-R > material. Thank you for having suggested me Xorg. It should work, even if it seems 9250 has to be excluded from any kind of machine. Thanks once more VITTORI > > Kent >> >> I would like to receive some suggestions. Please, CC me. Thanks in >> advance. >> >> VITTORI >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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