recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

NAKAJI Hiroyuki nakaji at jp.freebsd.org
Mon Mar 17 18:34:31 PDT 2008


>>>>> In <E1JbDfc-000MbY-Mg at dilbert.ticketswitch.com> 
>>>>>	Pete French <petefrench at ticketswitch.com> wrote:
> > G550's are very old cards, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect
> > that someone doing RC testing would have one installed.

> I missed the original posting, but I had a G550 (I think - may have
> been a 450, but I am fairly sure it was a 550) in my workstation here
> until a couple of weeks ago, and it ran fine under 6.3 and 7.0. The only
> slight niggle we had was having to disable the hardware mouse cursor as
> otherwise there was no pointerr - but this is well documented as a problem
> if you google for it.

My G550 is fine with xorg 7.3 and FreeBSD/i386 8.0-CURRENT.
The installation informations are available at

http://home.jp.freebsd.org/~nakaji/g550/

BTW, I think freebsd-x11 is better place.
-- 
NAKAJI Hiroyuki


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