Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:51:01 +0200 From: Tilman Linneweh <arved@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86 vesa and radeon 9600 driver voor AMD64 Message-ID: <20040518175101.GA44139@arved.at> In-Reply-To: <200405180953.31412.peter@wemm.org> References: <0ac901c43cb1$c9ba6350$471b3dd4@dual> <200405180953.31412.peter@wemm.org>
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* Peter Wemm [Di, 18 Mai 2004 at 18:53 GMT]: >> I have an ATI radeon 9600 video card, and that driver seems to be >> the only one I can get X to work with on amd64.... >> Next to the fact that configuration of it, is horribly simple. >> And thus would be a good target to get people quick online with a >> simple XConfig. > > I had to use a newer XFree86 that had updated drivers for my radeon > 7000. It wasn't pretty, to say the least. > > I currently run this at home: > vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc > vendor release number: 40400000 > XFree86 version: 4.4.0 > > But.. I had to do unspeakable things to it to make it compile. The > XFree86 folks really truely screwed things up. The main problems, __AMD64__ vs __amd64__, were fixed after 4.4.0 release (Both in XFree86 and X.org). I run 4.4.0 on my amd64 from the ports Dejan Lesjak submitted <http://www.ijs.si/software/stuff/xfree44-ports_20040510.tar.gz>; regards tilman
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