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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:57:28 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Moody, Bill" <Bill.Moody@scigames.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.2.1
Message-ID:  <20040422155728.GE78422@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <39BDF3A47069154AA03CDF47B33AAB841568FD@exchange14.scigames.com>
References:  <39BDF3A47069154AA03CDF47B33AAB841568FD@exchange14.scigames.com>

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Moody, Bill wrote:
> I have just purchaced a new 64bit laptop and have installed the 64bit
> version of 5.2.1 FreeBSD on it.  I am having a difficult time getting the X
> server to work properly though.

What model laptop?
 
> The laptop has an Radeon 9600 chipset in it.  This is not supported via a
> normal server as of yet.  I was able to get Linux to install properly using
> the standard VESA driver and the FrameBuffer driver.  These interfaces do
> not appear to be available on  this distrobution.

Try the XFree86-Server-4.3.99.15_2 version in
/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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