From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 01:27:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F6616A4CF for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from lupinella.troll.no (lupinella.troll.no [80.232.37.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626F743FCB for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ebakke@trolltech.com) Received: from steinbit.troll.no ([80.232.37.113]:6848 "EHLO steinbit.troll.no" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by trolltech.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:26:54 +0100 From: "Erik H. Bakke" To: Darrell Blake , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:27:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200311192254.08939.darrell@dunmanifestin.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200311192254.08939.darrell@dunmanifestin.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311201027.03449.ebakke@trolltech.com> Subject: Re: Radeon 9600 Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:27:14 -0000 On Wednesday 19 November 2003 23:54, Darrell Blake wrote: > I get the same error message when I try to run X in Linux and FreeBSD. I've > configured the kernel to use the "radeon" driver but when I run "startx" I > get an error. /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows this... > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) > found (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > I can run X fine if I change the driver to "vesa" but I don't want to run > in vesa mode. I want to have accelerated graphics =o) Please help, I really > don't want to have to use Windows every time I want to see some accelerated > graphics. > Just the same as I got when I was running XFree86 from ports. The radeon driver in the current ports version does not recognize the Radeon 9600 chips. They are supported in the latest development snapshots, though, so if you try to compile and install one of them it should work with the radeon driver. That's what I did to get my card up and running properly under X. Hope this helps, best regards. -- Erik H. Bakke