Gary Warner wrote: > > I'm a frustrated newbie who needs to RTFM, but can't find the right FM > to R. > > My first FreeBSD box is an old Compaq DeskPro with an ATI 3D Rage (Mach > 64 card).
Welcome to FreeBSD! Now let's get you over this hump so you can start enjoying it. > I'm TRYING to follow the directions, but I keep getting an error message > that server component XF86_MACH64 needs to be installed. I've run > setups and configs and I always end up back at this same place: > XF86_MACH64 needs to be installed. That sounds like you're probably using FreeBSD 4.4 which comes by default with XFree86 3.3.6. "Server component ... needs to be installed" doesn't sound familiar, though. Where and when do you see that message? Oh, wait, I think I understand what happened. In sysinstall, when you selected the "distribution sets" to install, you made a choice that includes X. You were presented with another list of components of XFree86 that you could choose to install or not. SVGA and VGA16 are selected by default, and you didn't know that you needed the one listed as Ma64 as well, for your ATI Rage. OK, here's what to do (as root): Run /stand/sysinstall. Pick from the menus: "Configure" -> "Distributions" -> "XFree86" -> "Server" -> "Ma64". You'll be asked to choose the distribution media, pick CD-ROM or an ftp site or whatever you used when you first installed, and follow through installing the Mach64 server, similar to your initial system installation. When that's done, wend your way back up through the menus to the "FreeBSD Configuration Menu" and choose "XFree86". Now you should be able to go through the usual XFree86 graphical configuration successfully. Alternatively, you could get the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries for FreeBSD 4 from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/FreeBSD-4.x/, that's even easier to install and configure (read the Install file there). Be aware that it's about 62.5 Megabytes to download, and the 3.3.6 version will probably work just fine. The reason for your difficulty is that XFree86 version 3 provided a separate, complete server for each type of video board, and since they're big they don't all get installed by default. You didn't know that you needed to "opt in" for the particular one for your Mach64. With XFree86 version 4, the various video boards are handled by dynamically-loaded modules. The modules are smaller, so they're all installed by default, and the one server automagically loads exactly what it needs when it starts. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
