From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 14:53:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2A337B402 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FA842D9; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:53:27 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: mpayne@hpcoatings.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 7000 & X11 & FreeBSD 4.5 RC Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:53:26 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020127193452.BXNV14335.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there> In-Reply-To: <20020127193452.BXNV14335.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020127225327.0FA842D9@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 27 January 2002 10:35 am, Matt Payne wrote: > Hi all, > > Wondering if anyone has had any experience with getting this card to work > successfully. The card is a 32 MB DDR agp card on an Asus A7A266 > motherboard with an ALiMAGiK 1 chipset. I've flashed the BIOS to the most > recent update. > > I've tried to use it by adding both "options agp" to my kernel and via > DRM-KMOD. The kernel picks it up as agp0 and DRM-KMOD actually recognizes > it as a Radeon card. > > I've tried using both the ports version of X11 (4.1_XX) as well as the most > recent cvs version. > > The problem is that no matter what I do, my computer either freezes > entirely or reboots. This happens with XFree86 -configure, xf86cfg, startx, > etc. The only config option that works is xf86config, which, of course > doesn't list this particular card and which doesn't create a useable > XF86Config file. > > I've also tried installing from ports anything I've see mentioned on the > web, such as linux-DRI. > > If anyone has successfully managed to get a similar setup working, I'd be > really interested to hear about how you did it. I realise this may be a > long shot. > > Please cc me in your replies. This email address is not on the list. > > Thanks for any help. > > Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message If you haven't already, upgrade to the latest XFree86 (ports). I believe they have included Radeon support. As an alternate I got a Radeon 7200 working using the Mach64 driver. Your mileage may vary. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message