Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:29:22 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@dobox.com> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 RC2 problem with XF86 4.1.0_12 Message-ID: <3C55A692.F89548B4@dobox.com> References: <3C4DEE64.185F29CE@dobox.com> <20020128124142.GH9395@freebsdmall.com>
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Murray Stokely wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:57:40PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> > I (finally!) installed 4.5RC2 yesterday. I installed XF86 3.3.6 during
> > sysinstall, only to find it did not have drivers for the VGA chipset
> > in my test machine, a "PC Wave" brand "book pc". The video card is
> > identfied in dmesg as "Trident model 8400" by the PCI bus probe.
> >
> > So I erased the /usr/X11R6 directory and installed XF86 4.1.0 from the
> > packages on the CD-ROM. Attempting to run xf86cfg failed, /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> You mean XFree86 -configure? I've never used 'xf86cfg' with
> X4.1.0. XFree86 4.1.0 seems to work fine for me on RC3.
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg is the 4.x graphical configuration tool. It runs
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -configure, yes.
> > messages I can re-install the 4.1.0 package later today, but it would
> > certainly bear testing. It would be a shame to ship 4.5 with a broken
> > 4.1.0 package, no 4.2.0 package, and only creaky old 3.3.6 that actually
> > works.
>
> These unresolved symbol problems are caused by some conflict on your
> local machine.
Apparently they're caused by X not recognizing or providing a correct
driver for the graphics chip. Weird, but not a show stopper, except
for someone trying to install and configure X on a Trident Cyberblade 7i,
which is quite common in low-end laptops and integrated motherboards.
Sigh. You can't win them all, right?
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Wes Peters <wes@dobox.com> System Architect
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