From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 23:51:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D9216A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:51:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D54A43D31 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:51:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20040921235125m9200g9j4ee>; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:51:25 +0000 Message-ID: <4150BE7C.6080400@math.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:51:24 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040918 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ATI and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:51:26 -0000 I have a Del Inspiron 7500 which has an ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x video card. XFree86-4.3 works excellently with it, but with XFree86-4.4 or Xorg I just get a blank screen. I did a web search and it seems that Linux users can use a VESA driver which might fix similar kinds of problems. Well I am guessing that this might be an X issue rather than a FreeBSD issue, but let me ask anyway (just for the record) - anyone here fixed this kind of problem? Stephen