From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 08:42:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0B416A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F9D43D46 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 10079 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2004 16:22:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 22 Jan 2004 16:22:46 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:24:24 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Gafgo Message-Id: <20040122182424.63f9c5c0@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <400EA360.1060405@bredband.net> References: <400E5323.1090506@bredband.net> <20040122162439.269b43cb@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <400EA360.1060405@bredband.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Graphic card question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:42:21 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:05:52 +0100 Gafgo wrote: > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >=20 > >On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:23:31 +0100 > >Gafgo wrote: > > > > =20 > > > >>Hello. I am trying to install v 5.2 on my new computer. I have done=20 > >>succesful installations on my old computer where everything worked=20 > >>perfect. My problem now is that I can=B4t find my graphic card when I a= m=20 > >>conf Xfree86. I have a Asus (ATI) Radeon 9200 SE. When I try to start X= =20 > >>it doesn=B4t work, even if I try vga generic and other settings. Is it = so=20 > >>bad that I have to buy a new card or is there other sollutions?? I have= =20 > >>looked at Xfree86.org driver section and my card isn=B4t mentioned even= in=20 > >>their latest release. > >>Hope that someone has an answer that will be cheaper than buying a new = card. > >>Many thanks Nicolas > >> =20 > >> > > > >http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > >Bellow it's my X config; I'm using a Radeon 9000. The thing you are > >after is: Driver "ati" in the Device section; or radeon might work. ^^^^^^^^^ Try it. You'll know after :).=20 > Thank u. I hope that=B4s it but I am not sure because of the Xfree86 man= =20 > Drivers: >=20 > Supported Hardware >=20 > The *radeon* driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the=20 > following ATI chips [..] > Unfortunately it doesn=B4t mention 9200........ Yup. When you try to run it with ati what does it print ? Look for something like=20 (--) Chipset ATI Radeon 9000 If (AGP) found > Is there a list of cards that FreeBSD supports???? > I can=B4t find it in the hardware support pages. "XFree86, provides a client/server interface between display hardware (the mouse, keyboard, and video displays) and the desktop environment while also providing both the windowing infrastructure and a standardized application interface (API)." FreeBSD supports whatever XFree ( or other graphical server) supports; + support for some things like dri that must be provided on the kernel level (see /sys/i386/conf/NOTES for details). --=20 IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user