Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:18:36 -0400 From: John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> To: Ed Budd <ebudd@grokking.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP on 5.3beta2 Message-ID: <f2160e0d04092118182ac02e5c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040921232940.C4DE016A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20040921232940.C4DE016A4D0@hub.freebsd.org>
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Ed Budd said: > John DeStefano wrote: > > I'm trying to get my ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card to play 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. I ran "Xorg -configure" and edited the fresh conf file it generated. One thing I noticed was that there were no screen modes at all added to the file; Depth and Viewport were filled in, but no Modes. So, in addition to commenting out dri and glx, the only change I made was to add four resolution modes to the "Depth 24" section. I then ran "X -config" on this new config file, and voila! I got that great, grey screen! Pressiong <ctl+alt+plus|minus> had no effect at all, but <ctl+alt+back> exited out of the X server. The one (WW) warning I saw back on the console was "(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found". The only thing I can relate this error to is the fact that Windows XP auto-detects this card as two "devices" somehow as well, as it shows two cards in Device Manager when I only have one, and a second Display too, both called "Secondary". I then tried "startx" for the real test... and it failed. It brought me back to my favorite green and blue garbled screen, out from which I could not exit. Any idea why? > > Cheers, > > EB Thanks, ~John
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