Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:37:16 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: rhino64@postmail.ch Subject: Re: Geode Xorg Driver Message-ID: <200912081637.16154.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20091207174837.GA4396@biollaz.local.sourire.ch> References: <20091207174837.GA4396@biollaz.local.sourire.ch>
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On Monday 07 December 2009 14:48:37 rhino64@postmail.ch wrote: > Hi All, > I use the Alix 1d computer from pcengines to build > a X terminal and a small mail server. > > The Xserver is working with the VESA driver. This is functional > but a little bit slow. A Xorg driver for this graphic card > (AMD Geode) exists but it is not available with FreeBSD. > > With FreeBSD 7.2, I was able to use the drivers compiled > for OpenBSD. But due to a version mismatch, they are not usable > with FreeBSD 8.0 which is installed now. > > I have lookup a many places since two days and I can see > that some persons were able to compile the drivers for formers > version of BSD. > > Could someone explain how to compile the drivers for FreeBSD 8.0 ? > There is no port, but since a lot of similar drivers (like the VESA) are > available, it should not be too complicated to compile the geode driver > (I have got the source on the GIT repository of Xorg). > > I have started to compile VESA driver from ports but it fails > at some points while not finding "gdm-config". > > An other solution would be to get the drivers of a Linux > distribution (normally this should work since Xorg modules are > platform independents). > > Thanks for any help or ideas. > > regards, > > Alain Aubord > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Hi Alain; John_doe made a port for a vesa driver that works perfectly in FBSD 8 amd64. The driver is here: ftp://ftp.lissyara.su/users/Guest/vesa-kmod.diff instructions: To apply use $ cd /usr/ports $ patch -sp0 -i /path/to/vesa-kmod.diff $ cd misc/vesa-kmod; make install clean put vesa_load="YES" into /boot/loader.conf Here is the thread where I picked it up. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6291 Regards, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)
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