From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 23:21:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4760C16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:21:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.magma.ca (mx2.magma.ca [206.191.0.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99B543D3F for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:21:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from in2.magma.ca (in2.magma.ca [206.191.0.224]) by mx2.magma.ca (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8LNLcDl019123 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:21:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by in2.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id i8LNKp1o030619 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:21:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (heinlein.sohotech.ca [192.168.1.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.sohotech.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8LNKpcD072595 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:20:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Message-ID: <4150B753.4040402@grokking.org> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:20:51 -0400 From: Ed Budd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP on 5.3beta2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:21:41 -0000 John DeStefano wrote: > I'm trying to get my ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card to oplay nice > with with Xorg on FreeBSD5.3beta2. Since I've already asked for help, > I won't pollute the list yet again with details, as they can be found > at the BSD Forums: > http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24984 > In a nutshell, no matter what config tool I use, or what settings I > come up with, when I startx I get a blue and green garbled screen out > from which I can't exit. > > I've been fighting with this for weeks now and I'm at the end of my > rope. A few people have had some ideas, which I've tried with little > result. As I'm on the cusp of deciding to reformat the whole $#@&% > thing and start over after a multitude of struggling (with other > components as well), I'm open to any and all ideas. > Have you tried it without dri and glx? I had a similar problem with my laptop integrated intel video and xorg running Gentoo Linux. It turns out that my particular card is very poorly supported by the latest xorg (6.8.0) but worked with 6.7.0. Now it still works but only if I don't allow those two modules to load, even though 'X -configure' detected the capability. By commenting out dri and glx from xorg.conf I've been able to use it, albeit without 3d acceleration. In any event, pretty simple thing to try. Post back whether it works or not. Cheers, EB