XFree86 from CVS?

[Jud]

The good news:  I've purchased an ATI Radeon 9500 and used an available 
driver patch to give it the performance of the 9700 model, which costs 
about twice as much.  :)

The bad news:  XFree86 4.2.0_1,1 (most recent version available with 
FreeBSD, I believe) doesn't work with the newest Radeons.

The XFree86 CVS changelog shows 2D support (all I need ATM - willing to 
wait for 3D) having been added just a few days ago.

My question:  Is it reasonable to try to install XFree86 from CVS on 
FreeBSD 4-STABLE, particularly for someone who lacks good wide-ranging Unix 
knowledge?  (I can follow simple directions - with my prior card I was 
using the nVidia drivers without difficulty.)  Has anyone out there done 
this recently?  Tips, gotchas?

Thanks,

Jud

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Re: XFree86 from CVS?

[parv]

in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jud thusly...

 My question:  Is it reasonable to try to install XFree86 from CVS
 on FreeBSD 4-STABLE,

I did too once for some early 4.x version...

 particularly for someone who lacks good wide-ranging Unix
 knowledge?

...can't say much about that one or the other.


 (I can follow simple directions - with my prior card I was using
 the nVidia drivers without difficulty.)  Has anyone out there done
 this recently?  Tips, gotchas?

I followed the directions from the XFree86 web site  those listed
in the INSTALL and README files (or whatever they were called).  It
took some time  space to compile, but there were no problems in the
compile process or installing the files at a preferred location.

The only problem that i had was to set up the environment to pull
the cvs source.


  - Parv

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