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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: p00r0ne@digitz.org, John Gordon <john.gordon@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: ATI Mobility hell
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:18:23 -0500
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On Monday 31 December 2001 07:06 pm, Mike Poor wrote:

This problem seems a bit surprising to me since a number of us (like me) have 
gotten laptops with ATI Mobility Rage chips specifically because it *is* 
well-supported under FreeBSD, in contrast to the nVidia chipset that is *not* 
well-supported under FreeBSD for reasons of (stupid) intellectual property 
requirements on the part of the company involved.

If you use XFree86 4, you can't use xf86config, I don't think, but then again 
taking your file from Linux should have worked fine.  Indeed, that's what I 
did--got somebody else's Linux config and used it.

What does *not* seem to work with the ATI drivers is to use X 
-configure--that locks me up, too.

I have a 1400x1050 display on mine, which I assume you do not, but if you 
want I can send you my config file.


> > > I have read all available ATI Mobility related posts, and have yet to
> > > find the answer to my woes.
> > >
> > > Summary: Cannot get XF86 running on Sony Vaio with ATI Mobility Rage
> > > (Mach64) with 8192 video memory.
> > >
> > > I have tried various releases of XF86, and nothing seems to work.
> > >
> > > Linux runs fine, with X et al.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD 4.4 and OpenBSD 2.9 run into this problem.
> > >
> > > Anyone out there that can help or point me in a particular direction?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance, Happy New Year,
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
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