From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 16 13: 0:14 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 5F20837B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from qescan2.qgraph.com (QESCAN2.qgraph.com [206.158.124.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DB4E43E72 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com) Received: from 192.168.200.30 by qescan2.qgraph.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:00:00 -0500 Received: by sxsmtp3.qgraph.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:59:59 -0500 Message-ID: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E277B@waexch1.qgraph.com> From: "Schroeder, Aaron" To: 'Jan Lentfer' Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: XFree86-4.2 on a PWS-500au Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:59:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Well, I have gotten a bit farther, I nabbed a Diamond Stealth S3/Trio64 card and 'XFree86 -configure' seems to work, except now when I go to test the server, it complains about not being able to load the "fixed" font. Do I need to go into /usr/ports/x11-fonts/ and install like mad? :) Thanks so far, AJ Schroeder -----Original Message----- From: Jan Lentfer [mailto:Jan.Lentfer@web.de] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:27 PM To: Schroeder, Aaron Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 on a PWS-500au 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