From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 25 20:56:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from lerlaptop.lerctr.org (lerlaptop.lerctr.org [207.158.72.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EDF37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.lerctr.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3Q3uNvE056685; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:56:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 From: Larry Rosenman To: Ben Lovett Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020426035328.GA1364@bsdguru.com> References: <200204260200.WAA00709@heimdall.ttsg.com> <20020426033939.GA1193@bsdguru.com> <1019792604.10366.11.camel@lerlaptop> <20020426035328.GA1364@bsdguru.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 25 Apr 2002 22:56:23 -0500 Message-Id: <1019793383.54782.2.camel@lerlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:53, Ben Lovett wrote: > I believe Larry Rosenman (ler@lerctr.org) scribbled this: > > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:39, Ben Lovett wrote: > > > Tuc, > > > > > > If you can get XFree86 4.2 to install (through ports or packages), you > > > might try this: http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html > > > > > > Note: I have not tried this as I have a supported video card in my Dell > > > i8000, but from what I hear, it works.. Atleast with a GeForce2 Go.. > > Also, to get XFree86-4 to build I needed to go to the work directory > > of both XFree86-4-Libraries and XFree86-4-clients and start a Make World > > once they start building, just ctrl/c them, then restart the make for > > XFree86-4. > > Hrm. All I had to do to build XFree86 4.2 from ports was -- > > cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 && make install clean > > Nothing fancy there.. It will become a little more complicated when > building it on a system with a GeForce2 Go video card, but all you > should have to do is uninstall the X11 servers port, and rebuild it > after patching.. It died for me, I filed a PR about it, but... I just did this again for me at a friends house with a fresh -STABLE build and a fresh ports tree. So, I dunno... > > 8< snip irrelevant material >8 > > Regards, > > Ben > -- > Ben Lovett > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message