XFree86 4.4 port (for Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics) - timescale?

[Owen.G]

I also bought a EPIA Mini-ITX in early June before seeing the posting 
that the video wasn't supported by X on FreeBSD (Linux - supposedly yes, 
BSD not yet).

The previous responder (thanks Erik) said, "the CLE266 chipset will be 
supported in the port of XFree86 4.4"

I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi

and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet.

Questions:
1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4?
2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be 
announced on the "freebsd-announce" mailing list?

(I did get an X windows manager running on the VGA S server but it was 
too low resolution to be useful.)

Thanks in anticipation,

Owen
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:20:06AM +0200, junkmail at sensewave.com wrote:
 >> I am trying to set up a windows manager on a EPIA Mini-ITX M6000
 >> board without any success.
 >>
 >> From the manual:
 >> Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics: VIA Castlerock AGP
 >>
 >> From dmesg.boot:
 >> agp0: <VIA Generic host to PCI bridge> mem
 >> 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
 >> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver
 >> attached)
 >> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem
 >> 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
 >>
 >> Any hope?
 > --------------------------
 > The via driver is available only from XFree86 4.4 (or in the x.org
 > release.)  The XFree86 port in FreeBSD has not yet been updated to
 > 4.4, and the x.org ports are not quite finished yet.
 > In other words: No, the via driver is not available yet, but once the
 > X ports have been updated to the latest release it should work.
 >
 > --
 > Erik Trulsson
 > ertr1013 at student.uu.se