From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 19:19:50 2003 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 1EBF016A4BF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2232343FE0 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F7D11A5C6; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:19:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:19:47 -0400 X-Epoch: 1061432387 X-Sasl-enc: Z6JY913FvuTK5KdeMrHu6w Received: from jud.dyndns.org (dialup-67.74.79.243.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.243]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7E011BF16; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:19:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Dan Strick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200308210054.h7L0sd9T000513@ice.nodomain> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:19:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200308210054.h7L0sd9T000513@ice.nodomain> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Linux M2 build 440 cc: Wayne Pascoe Subject: Re: Crucial Radeon 9800pro and XFree86 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 Aug 2003 02:19:50 -0000 On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:54:39 -0700 (PDT), Dan Strick 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