From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 8 07:12:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0151E1065670 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 07:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alain.aubord@sourire.ch) Received: from 212-98-41-64.static.adslpremium.ch (212-98-41-64.static.adslpremium.ch [212.98.41.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C7E8FC1C for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 07:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from biollaz.local.sourire.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 212-98-41-64.static.adslpremium.ch (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nB7Hmfig004442 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:48:41 +0100 (CET) Received: (from alain@localhost) by biollaz.local.sourire.ch (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3/Submit) id nB7HmbM9004441 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:48:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:48:37 +0100 From: rhino64@postmail.ch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091207174837.GA4396@biollaz.local.sourire.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Subject: Geode Xorg Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:12:42 -0000 Hi All, I use the Alix 1d computer from pcengines to build a X terminal and a small mail server. The Xserver is working with the VESA driver. This is functional but a little bit slow. A Xorg driver for this graphic card (AMD Geode) exists but it is not available with FreeBSD. With FreeBSD 7.2, I was able to use the drivers compiled for OpenBSD. But due to a version mismatch, they are not usable with FreeBSD 8.0 which is installed now. I have lookup a many places since two days and I can see that some persons were able to compile the drivers for formers version of BSD. Could someone explain how to compile the drivers for FreeBSD 8.0 ? There is no port, but since a lot of similar drivers (like the VESA) are available, it should not be too complicated to compile the geode driver (I have got the source on the GIT repository of Xorg). I have started to compile VESA driver from ports but it fails at some points while not finding "gdm-config". An other solution would be to get the drivers of a Linux distribution (normally this should work since Xorg modules are platform independents). Thanks for any help or ideas. regards, Alain Aubord