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XFree86 4.3.0 in FreeBSD Ports Tree

Posted by michael on from the eye-candy dept.

Dan writes "Eric Anholt has committed the long awaited XFree86 4.3.0 to the FreeBSD ports tree. Please report any issues, bugs, etc. directly to him. The port appears to have support for popular cards such as NVidia, ATI, etc. Eric suggests that you use portupgrade to ensure you update fully from an earlier version of XFree86."

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  1. A pleasant surprise... by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Informative
    Heck, I did a portupgrade after cvsupping my ports and hey presto, new X. Woohoo! What a nice present.

    Oh, I have to remark that the nvidia drivers for FreeBSD work surprisingly well under Xfree 4.3. So far no problems. My Geforce 4 is happily screaming away at 1600x1200. Life is good :)

  2. matrox g550 didn't work for me by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had to use the linux tarball of the matrox supplied *drv.o files.

    the bsd ones (from the ports) just kept giving weird errors.

    the port maintainer knows this now, but if you are running a dual-dvi system (which NEEDS the matrox HAL lib) then maybe try getting the linux .o files and putting them in the /modules/lib... area instead of the port-built ones.

    fyi.

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