From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 15:32:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F8F16A4CE; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl390.iae.nl [212.61.63.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9308043D5A; Tue, 18 May 2004 12:59:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from dual (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i4IJsA67074222; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:54:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <0c2701c43d11$f3013ee0$471b3dd4@dual> From: "Willem Jan Withagen" To: "Peter Wemm" , References: <0ac901c43cb1$c9ba6350$471b3dd4@dual> <200405180953.31412.peter@wemm.org> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:54:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 vesa and radeon 9600 driver voor AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:32:41 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Wemm" > > Was there any particular reason why the vesa is not included in the > > ISO 5.2.1 CD package.... > > The vesa module uses vm86 or bios calls from the kernel. Those are not > possible in a 64 bit kernel. I hate to agrue with you because you seem te be much more knowledgable on this than I am, BUT ....... I did not know this and just compiled vesa..... installed it. And this is currently running... xvidtune "complains" that there is nothing to tune. So I guess it must be running vesa?? How did this get to work then? And yes, I am running amd64 in 64 bit mode... hw.machine: amd64 hw.model: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 hw.ncpu: 2 XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.2 amd64 [ELF] Build Date: 17 May 2004 .... (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Chipset vesa found .... (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was already clear (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already clear (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 131072 kB (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI RADEON 9600 PRO (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: V350 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00 (==) VESA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) VESA(0): RGB weight 565 (==) VESA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) VESA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) ..... (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level 2 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 2 sec. (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read successfully (II) VESA(0): Manufacturer: PHL Model: 801 Serial#: 109398 (II) VESA(0): Year: 2001 Week: 14 (II) VESA(0): EDID Version: 1.3 (II) VESA(0): Digital Display Input (II) VESA(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34 vert.: 27 (II) VESA(0): Gamma: 2.10 (II) VESA(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display ..... And it goes on forever and forever, listing just about any vesa mode ever invented by mankind Looks pretty complete to me?? > > I have an ATI radeon 9600 video card, and that driver seems to be > > the only one I can get X to work with on amd64.... > > Next to the fact that configuration of it, is horribly simple. > > And thus would be a good target to get people quick online with a > > simple XConfig. > > I had to use a newer XFree86 that had updated drivers for my radeon > 7000. It wasn't pretty, to say the least. > > I currently run this at home: > vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc > vendor release number: 40400000 > XFree86 version: 4.4.0 > > But.. I had to do unspeakable things to it to make it compile. The > XFree86 folks really truely screwed things up. Well I'm trying to get a old 32-bit set of compiler tools on line on amd64. Gives me the same sort of feeling..... I tried using the Server-snap port, but i claims it does not compile on amd64 .... --WjW