Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:31 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 vesa and radeon 9600 driver voor AMD64 Message-ID: <200405180953.31412.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <0ac901c43cb1$c9ba6350$471b3dd4@dual>
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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/B5home | help
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