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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:52:07 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: G400 and mga_hal
Message-ID:  <200409281652.07971.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040927041530.GA3853@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <41577F37.8010204@safeasmilk.net> <20040927041530.GA3853@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sunday 26 September 2004 09:15 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:47:19PM -0400, Owen Becker wrote:
> > My current project is to get my G400 working with two monitors. I'm
> > using 5.3 Beta 6 amd64 with the options "agp" and "mgadrm" compiled
> > into the kernel.
> > When I start X (latest x.org from ports) it gripes about missing
> > mga_hal. Is the mga_hal driver supported with FreeBSD amd64? Thanks
> > in advance.
>
> I get the same on my 32-bit x86 machine using a G550.  I don't know
> that FreeBSD has ever had a mga_hal driver.  Have we?

mga_hal was OS independent and well behaved.  You just use the linux 
i386 one on a native freebsd i386 xserver.  Naturally, this isn't 
workable for a 64 bit xserver.
-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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