Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:34:36 -0500 From: Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-xll@sentinelchicken.net> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of support for Radeon X200M on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070113183436.GF71215@sentinelchicken.net> In-Reply-To: <20070113061841.GA4107@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> References: <20070113061841.GA4107@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
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On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 07:18:41AM +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> After the recent threads about ATI support here on the list I would like
> to inquire about the status of X support for the X200M on FreeBSD.
>
> Background: I have a ThinkPad R51e with this integrated chip, and when I
> tried to install 7.0-CURRENT and the 6.9 version of xorg from ports, the
> radeon driver failed to work. All it did was to switch the screen into
> graphics mode and then there it stayed, completely black (with
> occasional blurred greenish lines in some cases) and it was not possible
> to get either a working X display or a text console back. The machine
> did not freeze, it was possible to use it remotely, in fact it even
> reacted to keys pressed on the keboard, only the screen was unusable
> until a reboot. The vesa(4) driver worked of course, but I would like to
> have xvideo and 2D acceleration support if possible. (I am aware that 3D
> accel does not work on these chips yet except for the fglrx driver)
>
> Later I tried an Ubuntu live CD that came with xorg 7.1.1 and also used
> the radeon driver, and the X display worked there.
>
> So my question is: is it something that I am doing wrong, or does the
> X200M really not work with the radeon driver in the xorg port that we
> have now (either on RELENG_6 or HEAD) If it does not work now, is this
> likely different in the new modular xorg version that is up for testing?
>
> The X200M is rather frequently found in modern laptops, so I hope that
> people have some experience...
>
> --
> Best regards:
>
> Szilveszter ADAM
> Budapest
> Hungary
I have a Fujitsu Lifebook with an X200M running X 6.9 pretty
well. Initially, it was tough to get the system running right, but I
think this had to do with the chipset being relatively new. I've
provided some of my settings below -- maybe it will help.
# uname -a
FreeBSD sofie.sentinelchicken.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Nov 5 23:35:31 EST 2006
root@sofie.sentinelchicken.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOFIE amd64
# more /etc/X11/xorg.conf
[snip]
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
[snip]
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
[snip]
I'm no X expert -- I usually just try settings 'til it works, then I
don't touch it again -- but let me know if you need anything else re:
my config.
Cheers,
Jason Morgan
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