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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:59:17 -0500
From:      "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
To:        "Bin Ren" <br260@cam.ac.uk>
Cc:        AMD64 FreeBSD <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: XFree86 and Gnome 2.4
Message-ID:  <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E8680B@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bin Ren [mailto:br260@cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 10:12 PM
> To: Stephen Durham
> Cc: AMD64 FreeBSD
> Subject: Re: XFree86 and Gnome 2.4
>=20
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I can install XFree86 4.3 by binary. But I can only find 'vga' driver=20
> to work
> for my ATI Radeon 9600. I tried both 'vesa' and 'ati' but both with=20
> error
> 'no screen found. no device driver ...' With 'vga' driver, the=20
> resolution is
> formidable '640x480'. Any suggestion for ATI users?
>=20
> With 5.2-current i386 version, I use 'vesa' as XFree86=20
> version and with
> resolution 1280x1024.
>=20
> Thanks
> Bin

Have you tried the radeon driver? There isn't any 3d support for the =
9600, but 2D is supposed to work correctly.

I have a 9100 and I had to specify a ChipID in XF86Config to get it to =
work right - I don't know if this also has to happen with the 9600.

-Will



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