installing drivers on freebsd 6.2

vehemens vehemens at verizon.net
Mon Jan 22 17:53:24 PST 2007


On Sunday 21 January 2007 19:22, linux at x.deedni.com wrote:
> help!  i'm just about ready to give up on freebsd, because i can't
> figure out how to get these drivers installed and i'm getting extremely
> frustrated.
>
> i have an intel 965 chipset, and have downloaded and extracted the
> following file:
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-i810-1.7.
>4.tar.gz
>
> can someone please give me step by step instructions on how to get these
> drivers installed?  i am stuck at 640x480 resolution, which is way too
> low for me to do anything productive...

Are you using the modular port?  If so, then you would start with updating the 
driver port.

An intro is at  http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg  



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