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From: Eric Osterweil <ginipginob@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 and VIA M10000 Video
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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



	
		
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