From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 05:26:14 2005 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 5962B16A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:26:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D07B43D1F for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:26:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danbar@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (pcp0011768833pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net[69.139.224.157]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2005042105261301400niefqe>; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:26:13 +0000 Message-ID: <42673B5F.3000001@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:34:23 -0400 From: Daniel Bass User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: VESA driver hangs Xorg 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: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:26:14 -0000 OK, I've gotten 5.3-Released installed, and worked around the firewalled ports to upgrade my ports, and I have Xorg 6.8.2 installed. The system I am working on has a Radeon X700 PCI Express graphics card, but I don't need 3d, just basic 2d graphics X-windows support for what I need to develop. When I try to bring up the X server with the vesa driver, the screen flashes briefly and the system locks up. If I set the driver to vga X runs fine, but I get at best 800x600x8bit resolution. So what am I missing? If I specify the ati or radeon driver, X fails to start. --daniel