Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Osterweil <ginipginob@yahoo.com> To: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@guest.arnes.si> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and VIA M10000 Video Message-ID: <20040604154116.1978.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200406041334.30044.dejan.lesjak@guest.arnes.si>
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--- Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@guest.arnes.si> wrote: > On Friday 04 of June 2004 08:01, Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > > > It seems that you have section "Screen" wrong in > your XF86Config. Try using > > XFree86 -configure to get a working configuration > (see > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html). > > If this doesn't work, and also for some other tips > (setting video memory > > explicitly) see: > > > http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=47478 > > > http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=47455 > > and especially: > > > http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaXfree > > which has a sample XF86Config. > > The via driver seems to be on a bit experimental > side, but i hope this gets > > you a bit further... > > > > Dejan > > As others have pointed out, you have much better > chances of success with > x11-servers/xorg-server instead of xfree snapshot as > it is newer and via > driver has been updated quite a lot since snapshot. > I'm sorry I got a bit > distracted by question about 4.3.99 and replied to > how to get that rather > than how to get even newer version. The same upgrade > procedure should apply > to this server, although you might want to install > libraries and clients from > xorg for consistency. > > Dejan Dejan, So, do you think I should use the same portupgrade command that you sent me before to move to the xorg stuff? None of the suggestions above seem to work. Thanks, Eric __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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