Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Thanks for the pointers and hints, I'm over that hurdle. On 5/19/2012 5:28 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: 3. The Xorg man page notes that ctrlaltbksp should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why ctrlaltbksp doesn't

ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Robert Huff
Gary Aitken writes: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. I do not have this card/chip; I have a HD3300. Having installed xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0.5, 'device radeon'

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Gary Aitken
Ok... I tried the xf86-video-radeonhd driver, to no avail. Then tried xf86-video-ati-6.14.3 with marginally better results. Using the ati driver, which reports that it works for the HD5500, Xorg hobbles and writes a config file. When it attempts to start, the log shows a boatload of

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:59:03 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. Since the driver notes that Acceleration was disabled, but there are no other errors, shouldn't the driver work in dumb frame buffer mode? (Hoping to get something hobbling along...) Or is this the result of the need for KMS and

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: 3. The Xorg man page notes that ctrlaltbksp should cause it to exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on why ctrlaltbksp doesn't cause it to exit? This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more than two (if

ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

2012-05-18 Thread Gary Aitken
Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card. X.org -config says: Missing output drivers. Configuration failed. From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd, but this info is over 2 years old and

Re: NIC driver question

2006-11-22 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
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Re: NIC driver question

2006-11-21 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Mar 21 Nov 2006 09:57, Peter A. Giessel escribió: man em: *** QUOTE *** AUTHORS The em driver was written by Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]. *** END QUOTE *** man bge: *** QUOTE *** AUTHORS The bge driver was written by Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]. *** END QUOTE

just driver question

2006-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Shi
Hi, I am new to freebsd. My question is for my motherboard and VGA CARD to work with freebsd, should I use linux driver or unix driver? The freebsd I am thinking to install is version 6.0. Thanks Jeffrey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

driver question

2006-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Shi
Hi, I am new to freebsd. My question is for my motherboard and VGA CARD to work with freebsd, should I use linux driver or unix driver? The freebsd I am thinking to install is version 6.0. Thanks Jeffrey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: just driver question

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeffrey Shi wrote: Hi, I am new to freebsd. My question is for my motherboard and VGA CARD to work with freebsd, should I use linux driver or unix driver? The freebsd I am thinking to install is version 6.0. Thanks Jeffrey Hi, Jeffrey, and welcome to FreeBSD. The answer to should I

Re: driver question

2006-02-21 Thread wc_fbsd
At 05:09 PM 2/21/2006, Jeffrey Shi wrote: Hi, I am new to freebsd. My question is for my motherboard and VGA CARD to work with freebsd, should I use linux driver or unix driver? The freebsd I am thinking to install is version 6.0. What do you plan to run on this system? Any video card is

3ware 9500S-4LP with 4.x ... driver question ...

2005-07-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm having some major problems with the above card under 4.x ... namely, I'm getting no errors reported *anywhere*, yet I'm gettting file system hangs, and the server has been in production for a good while now ... I'm looking at 3ware's web site, and the latest driver is 9.1.5.2, which,

nvidia-driver question

2003-07-06 Thread Peng Zhang
Hi, I am a new learner of FreeBSD. Now I am running FreeBSD4.8-release on my computer. After I installed nvidia driver, I found that I can not install graphics/gle, and got the following error: configure: error: Cannot find required glut library === Script configure failed unexpectedly.

Driver question

2002-11-22 Thread Denis Fournier
I hope I sent this question to the good posting. I work in a research environnement and one of my project was to install different kinds of OS's for testing. I am using emulators, so I don't need hundred of computers in the lab. For now I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 and up in a producted called

Re: Driver question

2002-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
I hope I sent this question to the good posting. I work in a research environnement and one of my project was to install different kinds of OS's for testing. I am using emulators, so I don't need hundred of computers in the lab. For now I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 and up in a producted