Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:33:30 -0500 (EST) From: <joeo@cracktown.com> To: Matt Payne <mpayne@hpcoatings.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 7000 & X11 & FreeBSD 4.5 RC Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201271530190.30128-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net> In-Reply-To: <20020127193452.BXNV14335.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there>
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Do you happen to to know what the northbridge chipset on the motherboard is? Do a "dmesg | grep pci" and see what it says... Does the card work fine in X without to dri extensions enabled? (take the "load dri" out of the modules section in your XF86Config file). On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Matt Payne wrote: > Hi all, > > Wondering if anyone has had any experience with getting this card to work > successfully. The card is a 32 MB DDR agp card on an Asus A7A266 motherboard > with an ALiMAGiK 1 chipset. I've flashed the BIOS to the most recent update. > > I've tried to use it by adding both "options agp" to my kernel and via > DRM-KMOD. The kernel picks it up as agp0 and DRM-KMOD actually recognizes it > as a Radeon card. > > I've tried using both the ports version of X11 (4.1_XX) as well as the most > recent cvs version. > > The problem is that no matter what I do, my computer either freezes entirely > or reboots. This happens with XFree86 -configure, xf86cfg, startx, etc. The > only config option that works is xf86config, which, of course doesn't list > this particular card and which doesn't create a useable XF86Config file. > > I've also tried installing from ports anything I've see mentioned on the web, > such as linux-DRI. > > If anyone has successfully managed to get a similar setup working, I'd be > really interested to hear about how you did it. I realise this may be a long > shot. > > Please cc me in your replies. This email address is not on the list. > > Thanks for any help. > > Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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