I'm getting a bit cheesed off with the lack of FreeBSD support by ATI. There is GL support from the open source community for the older Radeons, but nothing as yet for the Radeon 9500+.

If everone takes a minute to visit the ATI Linux driver feedback page and lets them know that there is a demand for a FreeBSD driver (especially since they already have a Linux driver available), then maybe we can get some support.

For those of you dual booting an X-Windows machines with Windows, read on for a couple of scripts to make your like a bit easier.

I've updated my GDM installation to the latest version (2.4.4.3) from ports, and the keyboard no longer responds!

A bit of research shows that it is due to GDM taking over a VT that getty has already grabbed for itself, unfortunately, the directives in the GDM config file are only applicable to Linux.

As a workaround, I enabled GDM in /etc/ttys and disabled the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

The problems that used to occur when starting GDM in this way no longer occur, so for now, this seems like the way to get it working.

Whoot, new laptop for me, and to take advantage of this beautiful 1400x1050, I figured I might as well learn how to enable subpixel rendering - its easy!

XFree86 4.3.0 is finally in the ports collection for FreeBSD. You can find it in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/.

There's a great new KDE site for FreeBSD. You can download all the pre-compiled packages, etc. You can comment on the ports, etc. There are also installation guides plus other resources. Visit: http://freebsd.kde.org/

After installing the new version over 3.3.6 I discovered that my X-windows session was operating in only 256 colours! A few of my friends mentioned the same thing, which led me to suspect that the XF86Config file output by XFree86 -configure needed some tweaking (of course!). After a small amount of searching through the online documentation (http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/XF86Config.5.html) it took me about 5 mins to solve the prob...well for me anyway...

With a relatively up-to-date FreeBSD installation, getting your mouse wheel to work is quite simple. Read more to see how it's done. This article assumes you have: * KDE 2 or greater * XFree86 3.3.2 or greater (preferably 4.1.0) * An IntelliMouse (or compatible)

hello BSD gurus of perth :) well here's my problem... i can't seem to get Xfree86 4.1 working under FreeBSD 4.4 if i run the command X -configure and then test it out (X -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new) it will just freeze the whole computer, and if trying the graphical useage of configuring Xfree 4x (i forgot the command) the computer will freeze after the line "Test out with Xfree86 -xf86config ...." Specfications of Computer ASUS A7VL-VM KM133 Prosavage 16MB Shared RAm videocard (integrated with the mobo) AC97 integrated sound 256MB i believe the mobo prolly has sum conflict with bsd... because this card works under Linux (Xfree86 4.0.1)... and the savage_o driver does not work under Xfree86 3.3.6 .. (can the prosavage work under 3.3.6?)

September 19, 2001 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KDE 2.2.1, a powerful and easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux. KDE 2.2.1 is available in 42 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment, and over 100 applications from the other base KDE packages (administration, multimedia, network, PIM, development, etc.). The KDE Project strongly encourages all users of the award-winning KDE to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1.