Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:12:05 +1100 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: Stephen Beitzel <sbeitzel@envolved.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting X11 to work Message-ID: <20000915121205.G31014@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com>; from sbeitzel@envolved.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:03:19PM -0700 References: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com>
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Thus spake Stephen Beitzel (sbeitzel@envolved.com): > For example, here's a hardware system that I've set up and installed > FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE on: > > ABIT KA-7 motherboard with an Athlon 750 > 128MB RAM > Netgear 10/100 PCI Ethernet card > Aureal Vortex 2 PCI sound card > Diamond Speedstar A90 AGP (16MB) video card [ ... ] > Now, when I ran /stand/sysinstall and tried to configure X11, I was able > to get into the configuration tool (XF86Config?) but there was no entry > for this particular video card. I guessed, but I must have guessed You need to know the graphics chipset on which your Diamond card is based. Then, check the Driver Status document for XFree at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status.html. If your card is supported, then re-run XF86Setup, selecting the correct video chipset. Regards, Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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