From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 7: 9: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8350237B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:09:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54CF43E4A for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:09:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id AB0694FC8A; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:53:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B394A0E; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:53:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:53:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Joe Gwozdecki Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <002d01c2ab5b$b120b6c0$0300000a@lyon> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Joe Gwozdecki wrote: > Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD > Subject: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD > > > I had been having some problem trying to get FreeBSD installed onto a > free partition because I was unsure whether my Voodoo 3500 AGP card was > supported by X Windows. > > Thanks to some help received I now know that I need to use the tdfx > driver. However when I select this as part of the graphical or shell- > based W Windows setup during install it still fails. I wonder if > anyone can advise whether I am missing some quirk of using the card. > > With regard to the graphical setup it may be useful to note that all > the other devices are shown correctly while the graphics card is only > shown as an outline box. Is it time to try to pick up a cheat ATi > card? > > Cheers, > > Steve Hodgson > Perhaps you should install FreeBSD and perform the X setup/debug after the system is up an running? That card will work fine in X, it just may take a little tweaking, although my voodoo3-2000 worked fine out of the gate. I always configure X after the opsys install, but that's me .... # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message