The vga256/ati directory sounds like the old XFree86 3.x codebase. Why aren't you using XFree86 4.x ? You can get the precompiled stuff from ftp.xfree86.org:/pub/XFree86/4.2.0 Alan. On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:44:23PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Okay, you'll be quite proud of me - I took 13 minutes and in a swirl of > mixed pleasure (relief) and pain and despair, learned that my video adapter > (supposedly Rage 128 based; it's an ATI All-in-Wonder 16mb AGP card) is > -not- supported by the ati driver, even though the running of `XFree86 > -configure` happily picks this driver out every time and packages it with a > pink ribbon! >:-( > > So my question -- after RTFM -- to you all oh so nice sweet folk out there > moving electrons and neurons around is... Why do the contents of > /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/drivers/vga256/ati/* appear to be "compile-time" > stuff rather than ACTUAL binary drivers, and further, what is the path to > THE "ati" driver, and stretching this concept even further, when I did > RTFM, it said something about using the Mach64 driver; What's THAT? > Where can I procure it? Will there ever be a land animal faster than the > Cheetah? > > Kudeeoze, > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
