From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 5 8:11: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED79D37BA57 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12RdcO-0006ch-0X; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 16:10:56 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA38697; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 16:14:06 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 16:11:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: nm Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: No cigar with 3.9.18 :( In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000305102823.00c5eaf0@mail.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, nm wrote: > I grabbed XFree86 3.9.18, and applied the xfpatch. > Then, I edited the return statement of has_bwx() from > bsd_video.c > > I built with make world and did a make install. The > XFree86 binary was installed and I ran xf86config. > I guess with 3.9.18 there is only 1 binary for all > drivers/cards? Thats right. All the hardware drivers are loadable (look in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules). > > Next, I ran startx and the screen pretended to change > video modes, filled up with random color, random > characters (garbage), waited 3 seconds, pretended to > change modes again, and returned me to a prompt where > all I only see about every other character and things > are screwy :( > > Where did I go wrong? Not sure. At this point, the only hardware I know works well is MGA (which I'm using right now). What kind of graphics card are you using? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message