FreeBSD and Trident 3dimage975 video card

[clayton rollins]

On July 25, 2004, "clayton rollins" <crollins666 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>On July 26, 2004, "Hasan Kacmaz" <hkacmaz at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>G'day
>>My first attempt at *nix and tried to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my
>>Cel-333 box (324mb sdram/3x6gb hdd).
>>I also have a Trident 3dimage975 AGP video card on it which doesn't seem 
>>to like it.. I couldn't get the x to work on it..
>>Is there a fix or a way around this problem?
>>
>>Also, I've got 3 x 6GB hdd and wanted to install FreeBSD as the sole OS on 
>>this system on all these hdd... what is the best efficient way to 
>>partition them?
>>
>>cheers
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>Before I say anything, I should point out that all questions should be sent 
>to the freebsd-questions mailing list.[1] My comments here are limited to 
>the official documentation.
>
>As for the video card...
>>apropos trident
>trident(4)               - Trident video driver
>>man trident
>[snip]
>SUPPORTED HARDWARE
>       The trident driver supports PCI,AGP and ISA video cards  based  on  
>the
>       following Trident chips:
>[snip]
>       Image       3DImage975,  3DImage985,  Cyber9520,  Cyber9525, 
>Cyber9397,
>                   Cyber9397DVD
>[snip]
>
>Refer to the XF86Config man page if you simply want to edit
>the file rather than using one of the x setup tools. (I found it
>much easier...)
>
>HD layout is, in my opinion, a personal matter... (What do you
>want to do with them? freebsd should exist happily on a 6G
>drive... maybe mount the extras as /usr/home and /usr/ports...
>I'll leave the decisions up to you, though.)
>
>HTH,
>Clayton
>
>[1] http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/
>

Ooooooops...

I grep'ed through the pkg-descr files to see if something from
ports was required when writing this. To double check, I just
grep'ed the plist files, and it seems you'll need an x11-server
with the driver.

I don't think I did anything special, wrt that, so it may already
be on your system. If not, maybe someone from -questions
can help you pick and install one of the ports.

Regards,
Clayton

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