Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:03:40 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sondre_R=F8njom?= <s1465@lstud.ii.uib.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mikael_L=F6nnqvist?= <Mikael.Lonnqvist@qbranch.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie quest: freeBSD 4.8-rel, running X fails on my laptop w. an ATI Radeon IGP 340M Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305081700360.9830-100000@havengel.ii.uib.no> In-Reply-To: <6285744B01EA4C4981E9946AE492A805316163@jinx.qbranch.se>
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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Mikael Lönnqvist wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having a problem running X on my Laptop, FreeBSD-4.8-release, Xfree86 Vers. 4.3.0 (out of ports) > The laptop (Fujitsu, 2Hgz, 512MB RAM) has an ATI Radeon IGP 340M, 32MB graphics > chip in it. It's running on PCI bus 1, device 5, funct0. > > I'm getting this error msg: > > (EE) No devices detected > Fatal server error: no screens found > > tailing /var/log/XF86Config.0.log produces the same as above. > > No matter what i try, I can't seem to get it working... > > A colleague of mine running Mandrake 9.1 has an identical machine as mine, and has hot Xfree86 4.3.0 > Working - so i tried copying his XF86Config file,,, except for the fonts statements, > which has been changed/modified in Mandrake in order for to use it's own font server. > > Doesn't help... and I don't want to run Mandrake;-) > > I't looks like the Radeon chip is not found, doesn't it? (according to the Error) > > Anywone got a clue? I've tried searching everything everywhere via Google but > have come up with nothing useful. > > Please accept my apologies if this is the wrong forum, or if i'm posting this in some way i should not > > Best Regards > /Mikael What you can try first of all if you don't know how to configure XF86Config you can try let X configure itself by doing ' XFree86 -configure '. If this works you have a start for tweaking your X ;) /sondre
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