Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:40:56 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86 4.3.0 Message-ID: <200303060840.56484.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <1046940758.611.29.camel@leguin> References: <20030305151914.GB58739@sr.se> <200303052336.47779.wes@softweyr.com> <1046940758.611.29.camel@leguin>
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On Thursday 06 March 2003 00:52, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:36, Wes Peters wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:57, Eric Anholt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 07:19, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > > I find it working very fine on my troublesome 5.0-CURRENT > > > > box. I've had big problems for some weeks getting 4.2 > > > > to work. I gave up the other day, but 4.3.0 worked > > > > straight "out of the box", if you can say so after a > > > > portupgrade XFree86 > > > > > > > > What didn't work was the installation of XFree86-FontServer > > > > but I can live without that, I hope. > > > > > > Okay, got that fixed, it'll be in the -8 diff. (got to run to > > > class). Thanks! > > > > Is this working with the nvidia driver? I gotta track down that > > PCI TNT2 card for my -current machine... > > Are you talking about the binary driver? If it's a proper XFree86 > module and XFree86 didn't screw up compatibility (I don't think they > did), it should continue working, but it could do things that would > prevent it from working in a new server. > > I haven't tested cards besides the radeon due to lack of time so far. > > The -9 diff is up (http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/files.html) > and I haven't had any reports of problems with it so far. If you get > X 4.3.0 working with it in the next couple of days, it would be great > if people could mail me and mention what card, if they had to change > anything from a 4.2.0 installation to get it to work, and briefly how > they've tested it (i.e. started up gnome2 and did something, not just > "it built" or "startx works") I'll give it a whirl. Probably not until the weekend though. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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