From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 02:51:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816BF16A4CE for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 02:51:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C46B43D54 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 02:51:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4L2pOJJ009024; Fri, 20 May 2005 19:51:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:51:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <000001c55daa$6d1fef00$98edfea9@workstation> In-Reply-To: <000001c55daa$6d1fef00$98edfea9@workstation> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505201951.36735.kstewart@owt.com> cc: ".VWV." Subject: Re: radeon X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 02:51:39 -0000 On Friday 20 May 2005 07:11 pm, .VWV. wrote: > Hello. > > Once again, I have problems in order to use any kind of graphical > environment on FreeBSD, therefore I write from Wingsdowz. > > I was trying to move to RADEON-based cards, but I have no idea how to > make them work with X servers. I have a mixed-up 4.7 and 4.11 system, > with the kernel of the new one, and the X server of the old one. I > have both the collection of ports available. When you are having problems, I find that you need to get consistant. Your comment about kernel is scary because on FreeBSD you don't have a different kernel and user land. You have 4.11 or 4-stable but not a combo of both. No one will have a similar system to see what you can do to fix a problem until you have a consistant system with what other people are also running. If you are running a 4.11 system, you need to upgrade all of your ports to 4.11. There is on the order of a year between the release of 4.7 and 4.11. Lots of things have changed. So, I would get all of the ports updated to 4.11. The port program sysutils/portupgrade will make this easier. You can set the option "-P" and it will use packages from /usr/ports/packages/All or you can mount the 4.11 CD and load the packages from the CD. Chapter 4 in the Handbook is on maintaining your ports. It goes in to much better detail than anyone will in a simple email. > I'm testing the Radeon chipsets from 9250 to 9800, even if the firts > experiences are crappy also on Wingsdowz, as for the desktop stuff. > If I could find a couple of ABIT FX5800 OTES, I'll trash the ABIT > RADEONS. The XFree86 Organization will have documentation on what cards it supports. You will have to track them down and see what cards are supported. The newer ones may only be fully supported on Xorg. That doesn't work very well on 4.x and you should consider updating to FreeBSD 5.4. There is an iso that you can download and burn on to CD-R material. Kent > > On FreeBSD I only run Windowmaker, GNUstep, GTK1 at the moment; the > system also runs emulators like Wine and Xmame: it is extremely fast. > On Wingsdowz I have two customized graphical engines for the desktop. > Both the systems look exactly like a NeXT. > > I would like to receive some suggestions. Please, CC me. Thanks in > advance. > > VITTORI > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html