Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:57:48 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRI/Matrox: Best FreeBSD & XFree vers? (RESEND) Message-ID: <20010213025748.A40635@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010212163832.B91920@hub.freebsd.org>; from rhh@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:38:32PM -0800 References: <20010212163832.B91920@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:38:32PM -0800, Randall Hopper wrote: > Hi. I'm contemplating a major system update, and wanted to find out > what the latest FreeBSD and XFree86 versions are that anyone's gotten a > Matrox G200/400/450 working with DRI. > > FreeBSD 4.2-R and XFree86 4.0.1? Or do I need later for some new kernel > bits or best performance? > > I found Steve Reid's excellent write-up in the archives for 4.x & 4.0.1 > (http://wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl/freebsd/hwaccel.html), but since it's three > months old I thought I'd check first. > Good to check, since this works for XFree 4.0.1 only... you can compile it with 4.0.2 (the current XF 4 version) but will find out that drm in the bsd subtree and the rest is out of sync, at least for Matrox cards. I got patches from someone on this list that worked for me (4.2-STABLE and XF 4.0.2) with G400. Unfortunately I'm not sure about the origin of these patches, otherwise I would have put them next to the 4.0.1 instructions, if that would be possible. Drop me a mail if you want to try it out. Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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