Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 08:49:42 -0600 From: "Joe Gwozdecki" <joegw@hal-pc.org> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org>, "Steve Hodgson" <steve@shodgson.org.uk> Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Message-ID: <002d01c2ab5b$b120b6c0$0300000a@lyon> References: <418848628-BeMail@>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Hodgson" <steve@shodgson.org.uk> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 3:44 AM Subject: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD I had been having some problem trying to get FreeBSD installed onto a free partition because I was unsure whether my Voodoo 3500 AGP card was supported by X Windows. Thanks to some help received I now know that I need to use the tdfx driver. However when I select this as part of the graphical or shell- based W Windows setup during install it still fails. I wonder if anyone can advise whether I am missing some quirk of using the card. With regard to the graphical setup it may be useful to note that all the other devices are shown correctly while the graphics card is only shown as an outline box. Is it time to try to pick up a cheat ATi card? Cheers, Steve Hodgson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I just looked at the XFree video driver list and they do not have Voodoo cards on it. Maybe it goes by some other name. But Voodoo is just not there. Which means there is no driver for it in X windows. When I first got into the X window system, I did not understand how important it was to have an exact card from the list. I tried and tried with what I had, and got no where. Finally, I printed off their list, went to the computer store with it, and got something exactly, and the key word is exactly, like on the list. Came back, put it in, set the variables in "X", and voila! Again, it is not FreeBSD. It is X windows which is card specific. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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