From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 19 03:46:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082BA1065672 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 03:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.145.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5CC8FC16 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 03:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4J3j3UN004784; Mon, 18 May 2009 22:45:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 22:45:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200905190345.n4J3j32t004783@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: rnoland@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X questions before installing FreeBSD 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 03:46:45 -0000 On Mon, 18 May 2009 14:47:52 -0500 Robert Noland wrote: >On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 11:58 -0700, David Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 18 May 2009 11:14:05 am Warren Block wrote: >> > M18 is not mentioned in the radeon man page. >> > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon shows the R420/M18 as >> > equivalent, but says they are Radeon X800, not 9800. >>=20 >> So 9800 is r300 and Radeon Mobility 9800 is r400? The end result should b= >e the=20 >> same though. Both are supported. This sort of confusion is exactly what I had hoped to avoid by including in my original posting the following lines from kernel initialization and the xorg.0.log file. pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 drm0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xfcff0000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xf0000000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Chipset ATI Radeon Mobility 9800 (M18) JN (AGP) found > >All of the 9800 variants that I see are treated as R350. > Okay, that's good. I am completely clueless as to what the differences might be between an R350 and an R420/M18, nor do I have any idea of the significance of "JN" in the above identification messages. If the R350 code in the r300 driver will work right, that's good enough for now, even if it might not take full advantage of the differences between the different chip models. Thanks again to all who have replied. I'll give it a go. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************