From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Nov 28 18:07:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09410 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:07:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enterprise.cs.unm.edu (enterprise.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA09403; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colinj@cs.unm.edu) Received: from viper.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.25] by enterprise.cs.unm.edu with smtp (Exim 1.80 #2) id 0zjwGg-0002bk-00; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:07:22 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:08:21 -0700 (MST) From: Colin Eric Johnson To: Gary Palmer Cc: Greg Lehey , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and NeoMagic (was: Dell Latitude CPi) In-Reply-To: <71061.912299863@gjp.erols.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote in message ID > <19981129104424.P6182@freebie.lemis.com>: > > > I'd have to agree 100% on this one. I just tried the new XFree86-3.3.3 > > > release and the NeoMagic support just isn't there yet. > > > > How did you determine that? According to the release notes, it is. > > He probably means that the support is weak, and possibly buggy, not that its > non-existant :) It is after all the first rev of XFree that has had NeoMagic > support, and its likely to have issues. > > Dontcha just love the english language? Good on ya Gary, hit the nail right on the head. I came to the conclusion when I built XFree-3.3.3 and set it up to handle my NeoMagic chipset and it just didn't work. Go figure. Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ Dumbfounding question 2: Someone once asked me why I care. I couldn't imagine what life would be like without caring. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message