Re: FreeBSD-Current and XFree86

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:59, James Tanis wrote:
>          I'm having problems with XFree86 that result from the fact that 
> the ATI Radeon 9800 is not supported by the current 4.3.0 radeon driver. I 
> would like to upgrade to current/cvs version of XFree86, 4.3.99 since the 
> next release isn't going to be for around another 2 months. My question is, 
> what is the most flawless way to do this? Is there a FreeBSD concentric 
> repository, or should I just get the sources from the standard XFree86 cvs 
> repository? Is there a place where I can instead get frequently updated 
> ports of the repository? Building from source is there any configure 
> switches that I need to successfully build? Last but not least is it 
> possible to build only the radeon drivers and use those in 4.3.0.. if so, 
> how do I go about doing that? I had some problems when I only downloaded 
> the graphics drivers module.
> Thanks for any 

Please use XFree86-4-Server-snap if you are looking for CVS X Server. 
The snap is slightly out of date due to problems getting 4.2.99.14
building (the monolithic nature of XFree86 is a major issue for
maintaining these ports), but it should include radeon 9800 support.

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