Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:01:07 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk> Cc: AMD64 FreeBSD <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 and Gnome 2.4 Message-ID: <20040312220106.GJ93883@chaos.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <E4B3E3B5-1DEC-11B2-9A8B-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk> References: <2495DDA6-7450-11D8-B264-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk> <1079160060.13141.2.camel@home> <E4B3E3B5-1DEC-11B2-9A8B-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 04:11:57AM +0100, Bin Ren wrote: > Hi, > > I can install XFree86 4.3 by binary. But I can only find 'vga' driver > to work > for my ATI Radeon 9600. I tried both 'vesa' and 'ati' but both with > error > 'no screen found. no device driver ...' With 'vga' driver, the > resolution is > formidable '640x480'. Any suggestion for ATI users? > > With 5.2-current i386 version, I use 'vesa' as XFree86 version and with > resolution 1280x1024. > Newer Radeons require XFree >= 3.99.x. Try either using the x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap port or compile the recent XFree 4.4.0 release manually. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org
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