Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:53:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Joe Gwozdecki <joegw@hal-pc.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212240951290.16485-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <002d01c2ab5b$b120b6c0$0300000a@lyon>
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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
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