From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 21:44:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4B7CF16A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:44:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.murphy@cogeco.ca) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB41543D58 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:44:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.murphy@cogeco.ca) Received: from mercury.upton.net (d141-24-210.home.cgocable.net [24.141.24.210]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31114F560; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:44:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.upton.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32CA60EB; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:44:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from mercury.upton.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mercury.upton.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92464-04; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:42:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from earth (earth.upton.net [192.168.0.3]) by mercury.upton.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C10D60FC; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:41:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul Murphy" To: "'Christian Reiss'" , Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:41:21 -0500 Message-ID: <008901c6340a$e6a1ab70$0300a8c0@earth> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <43F5E42F.8010807@demonlord.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at upton.net Cc: Subject: RE: Radeon x1600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:44:21 -0000 Christian Reiss wrote: > Hello all, > > So I fear there is no solution to get this card working in any > way with BSD? No well-kept secret moves? > > Oh well. > > Thanks anyway! > -Christian Reiss. > > > --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- > > Greetings people! > > I am using FreeBSD for quiet some years now, and I just recently > upgraded my PC. Along came a Radeon x1600 (PCIE). Before that I > was a happy-happy joy-joy nvidia (-module) user - it just worked. ;) > > Now I am having a dickens of a time to get the Radeon x1600 working > under Xorg (latest) to work - even 2D would suffice. But google'ing > around just yielded my own questions in several forums. > > The ati and radeon drivers (native from xorg, which i am using > out of a currents ports tree) did not work with that card. > Unless, of course, some magic incantations are required. > Just to be on the safe side, I am hording virgin blood right now. > > Using the vesa driver my screen yells "input not supported", and > forcing the vesa driver didnt work out. I got a TFT that can, and > should do 1280x1024. > > Using FreeBSD 6.0 Patch 4. > > Any help would be more than welcome. > > Kind regards, > Christian Reiss. > > --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I asked a similar question earlier and got the response...X1600's are unsupported. Does your X1600 show up in dmesg, mine doesn't. I would think that whether or nor Xwindow System supports it doesn't matter until FreeBSD actually detects the card.