Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:19:41 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd-questions@penguinpowered.org> Subject: Re: Crucial Radeon 9800pro and XFree86 Message-ID: <oprt8gq3190cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <200308210054.h7L0sd9T000513@ice.nodomain> References: <200308210054.h7L0sd9T000513@ice.nodomain>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:54:39 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> wrote: >> I've recently acquired a radeon 9800pro and am now trying to get it >> working on XFree86 with no luck. >> >> I'm using XFree86-4.3.0 on FreeBSD 4.8 >> ... >> I've added the following to my config file: >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "radeon" >> BusID "PCI:1:0:0" >> EndSection >> >> When I run startx I get the following error: >> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) >> found >> >> If I change the busid in the config to PCI:1:0:1 I then get an error >> complaining that no Device section for PCI:1:0:0 is found >> >> The card does have dual output but I'm only trying to use the main VGA >> connector. Am I even using the right device for the 9800pro ? > > (Oops.) I guess my previous observation that the 9800 is not fully > supported may be irrelevant. > > You can verify the PCI address of your video card by doing "pciconf -lv". > > Dan Strick > strick@covad.net My Radeon 9500 (upgraded to a 9700 in Win with a utility called Riva Tuner - don't know what if any difference this makes in FreeBSD) works with XFree86, both latest port and source cvsup-ed as of yesterday, though I get the same message re "No matching Device section...." Is it an AGP card? Do you happen to have "device agp" in your kernel? Sorry, I (obviously) don't know much about this, and that's all I can think of. Jud
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