XFree86 and VIA M10000 Video

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Friday 04 of June 2004 02:46, Eric Osterweil wrote:
> --- Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak at guest.arnes.si> wrote:
> > Eric Osterweil wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have been trying (without success) to get
> >
> > XFree86 working on my new EPIA
> >
> > > M10000 board for days.  I've seen some mention of
> >
> > there being a Castlerock
> >
> > > driver in 4.3.99, but the ports pull in 4.3.  Does
> >
> > anyone have any advice
> >
> > > for me?  Should I download the source and compile
> >
> > the new 4.4 version and
> >
> > > just put it over the port install?
> >
> > There's newer version of xfree86 server in
> > x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap
> > (4.3.99.15), so try upgrading your XFree86-Server
> > port to that one. It has
> > via(4) driver that is not in 4.3 and that one should
> > work for your chipset.
> >
> > Dejan
>
> Dejan,
>
> Great!  Thnx for the pointer.  Is there any special
> way to upgrade from the XFree86-Server port to the
> XFree86-Server-snap port?  Should I make deinstall in
> the Server dir and then make install in the snap dir?
> It seems like this might cause problems?

That way, or if you have portupgrade, something like
portupgrade -f -o x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap XFree86-Server-\*
would do it. It shouldn't cause problems, especially since you don't have 
server running.

Dejan