Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:56:25 +0100 (BST) From: bsd@bathnetworks.com To: "Walt Pawley" <walt@wump.org> Cc: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X ATI driver? Message-ID: <63411.192.168.0.104.1150566985.squirrel@192.168.0.50> In-Reply-To: <a05210203c0b9ebc04632@[10.0.0.10]> References: <a05210200c0b95015c8d9@10.0.0.10> <ef10de9a0606170842t9a297d1l2f611e772244bbb5@mail.gmail.com> <a05210203c0b9ebc04632@[10.0.0.10]>
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> At 10:42 AM -0500 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >>What kind of ATI card is this? > > There's a label on what's probably an E-PROM that says > > PCI MACH32 > 113-23000-110 > (C) 1995 > >>... Here's a wild guess: it might be the >>DRI/DRM crap, disable it, in xorg.conf, and try again: >> >>Section "Module" >> Load "extmod" >> Load "glx" <----- >> Load "dri" <----- >> Load "dbe" >> Load "record" >> Load "xtrap" >> Load "type1" >> Load "freetype" >>EndSection > > I commented out those two lines. It still fails. > > FWIW: the card worked with FreeBSD 5.3. > -- > ATI cards with X Windows are a bit of a pain. As I understand it, ATI have not released their specs etc so that any X driver is reverse engineered. NVIDA does provide drivers which do work. I have an old MACH32 in a server and could only get it to work as using the Vesa drivers. It runs at 1024x768, but I was not too bothered as the machine after setting up runs headless. My advice is try the VESA drivers if that fails try and change to NVIDA. Rob
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