I thought that dfr was supposed to be taking care of this...maybe not anymore.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Rasputin wrote, and it was proclaimed:
> * Glenn Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010614 20:27]:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:36:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Say I have a Matrox G400, on FreeBSD-4.3-stable, I have installed the
> > > FreeBSD 'port' of XFree86-4.1.0 and I try to enable dri, and it hangs.
> >
> > The DRI stuff does not work with XF86-4.1 and FreeBSD.
> >
> > > Do I try to foist blame on XFree86, or do I try to foist blame on
> > > FreeBSD?
> > >
> > > I realize this isn't a well formed bug report, I'm holding off on
> > > that, until I understand who wants to be put in the frame.
> > >
> > > My suspicion is that Its FreeBSD, because it relates to their
> > > kernel agp.ko module (which I am guessing is required to support
> > > DRI->agp->G400 interrelationships somehow.
> >
> > The agp.ko module is built with the FreeBSD sources and as far as I know
> > works fine for most motherboard chip sets. It is required for DRI but
> > not sufficient. The other required kernel modules for DRI with a Matrox
> > G400 are the mga.ko and the drm.ko modules. These are [optionally]
> > built as part of XFree86. The problem is that nobody is keeping the BSD
> > branch of the DRI source tree up to date.
>
> If you go to
>
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/XFree86-4/?only_with_tag=RELEASE_4_3_0
>
> you'l get a version of the port that *should* build the dri modules you need.
> You still need to preload agp.ko and mga.ko from /boot/loader.conf, and load
> the dri module in XF86Config , but you should be OK.
>
> Unlike me ,since that port doesn't appear to build tdfx_dri.so .........
>
> If anyone's got DRi on a Voodoo 3 working, please let me know.
> Ta!
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