Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:57:56 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Luke Downey <gnawing_beaver@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New to *nix, having some hiccups :-) Message-ID: <20020508105756.B371@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3CD71FCE.8090603@potentialtech.com>; from wmoran@potentialtech.com on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:29:02PM -0400 References: <F245Rl7wJI137XQgEHm0000ebaf@hotmail.com> <3CD71FCE.8090603@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:29:02PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Luke Downey wrote: > > 4) I have a Radeon 8500 graphics card. X doesn't support this yet, but > > I was wondering if the Rage 128 driver (most current ATI driver listed) > > would work well enough that I could at least get higher resolution > > and/or color depth. > > Not sure, it'll probably be some poking & hoping. > I've never come across a vid card that I couldn't get to work in SVGA > mode. While not great, you can usually get 1024x768 @ 16bpp out of it. The Radeon 8500 is supported by XFree86 4.2, which I think is in the ports now. You'll need to learn how to use cvsup to update your ports (or just download the packages), and replacing a big package like X can be a bit hairy, but it *is* a shame to waste such a nice card :-) CVSup is covered very well in the Handbook, and the archives of this list and freebsd-stable should provide some hints on how to make an X upgrade go smoothly. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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