From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 01:12:52 2004 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 A797D16A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:12:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E5343D39 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:12:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john.destefano@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so502399rnk for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.74.77 with SMTP id w77mr2057248rna; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.99.34 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:12:48 -0400 From: John DeStefano To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Storey In-Reply-To: <20040917004850.7070116A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040917004850.7070116A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATI AGP card and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John DeStefano List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:12:52 -0000 Robert Storey wrote: > One thing you could try is editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and substituting > "vesa" for "ati". It's not an ideal solution, but the vesa driver often > works when nothing else will. You might want to take a look at > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.ati, and list all video drivers in > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/. > > regards, > Robert > Thanks Robert... but I did try 'vesa' before posting (2nd & 3rd paras from bottom of my post below). I'm sure either 'raden' or 'ati' are the way to go, I just can't seem to get either one to work. I also read through the entire README.ati, and found it a bit of a frustrating read when trying to look for answers on 'radeon' drivers for my card... not much relevent info there for the end-user. > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:10:44 -0400 > John DeStefano wrote: > > > Trying to take my mind off my server exploit issue... > > > > I'm trying to configure an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card with > > Xorg on a FreeBSD5.3beta2 workstation. No matter which config option I > > choose ('Xorg -configure', 'xorgcfg -textmode', xorgconfig), when I > > test the generated .conf file, the screen locks up with a bunch of > > colors and horizontal lines (green on top, blue everywhere else). The > > mouse cursor moves, but none of the Ctrl+Alt key combos work, and I > > can't escape the X session or access another virtual console. The > > "Device" section generated from 'Xorg -configure' is: > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Card0" > > Driver "ati" > > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" > > BoardName "Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000]" > > BusID "PCI:3:0:0" > > > > Here's any related output I can think of from 'pciconf -lv': > > agp0@pci0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01e010de rev=0xa2 > > > > hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > > device = 'nForce2 AGP Controller' > > class = bridge > > subclass = HOST-PCI > > . > > . > > . > > none9@pci3:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x20021002 chip=0x49661002 > > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.' > > device = 'RV250 Radeon 9000/9000 Pro' > > class = display > > subclass = VGA > > none10@pci3:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x20031002 chip=0x496e1002 > > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.' > > device = 'RV250 Radeon 9000/9000 Pro - Secondary' > > class = display > > > > I thought it might be an AGP/kernel issue, but when I try 'kldload > > agp' I get back "File exists", and when I do 'kldstat -n agp' or > > 'kldunload' I get "No such file". > > > > I tried someone else's bare-bones "radeon" conf file, and I got the > > same problem as always on test: blue/green garbled screen, mouse > > moves, can't escape out of locked-up X. I then replaced the "radeon" > > Driver entry with "vesa" in the config. When I tested this, it showed > > a different garbled screen (grey this time) for a few seconds, then > > clicked to a "normal" X-Windows screen, but with a black hourglass > > outline on the sides. I was able to Ctl+Alt+Backspace out of this as > > normal, and the console didn't report any warnings or errors. > > > > I then moved this config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and ran 'startx'. > > It started fine and looked as described above, with an hourglass > > outline. When I exited X, there were some errors on the console that > > were probably just from exiting out of X, and this one: > > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "my.hostname.com:0" in "remove" > > command > > > > Any ideas on how to get this card working properly? BTW: I began > > using FreeBSD5.3beta2 on this machine for its NDIS support for my > > onboard NIC. > > > > Thanks, > > ~John Please carbon copy the OP when replying to the list. Thanks, ~John