Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:10:35 -0500 From: Bill Triplett <btt@nethouse.com> To: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: Jacques Beigbeder <Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 for Asus A7A266 (rev 1.11) + ATI ?? Message-ID: <20020324231035.GA368@fourier.mat> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020323100830.00bbe878@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> References: <20020323155609.A7253@trefle.ens.fr> <5.1.0.14.0.20020323100830.00bbe878@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:11:53AM -0500, Scott wrote: > At 15:56 2002/03/23 +0100, Jacques Beigbeder wrote: > >I desperately try to have a working XFree86 for: > > Processor: Athlon > > Motherboard: Asus A7A66-E rev. 1.11 Mine says: ASUS A7A266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1002B http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_menu.asp?l1=1&l2=10&l3=17&mid=2 The changes added with 1009 are: 1. Add IDE ATA133 support. 2. Add ATI AGP display card patch to fix that the system can not execute AGP cycle with ATI AGP display cards. I will see if I can figure out how to flash this thing to 1009. That is something I've never done. I will have to find a way to make a bootable DOS disk for the flash program. > > FreeBSD 4.5 > > ATI Rage 128 Pro PF Setup here is: Athlon 1.4 A7A266 ATI All In Wonder Rage 128 Pro AGP 32MB XFree 4.2.0 (No DRI or agpgart or anything.) I can't even get a decent panic... just freezes :( > Not sure about the A7A66--however, there is a bug report from 4.3 Release, > recently modified but not fixed yet (I tried again last night) for the > A7A266 > > PR 28418 > IIRC the person who was working on it was wondering were some other ASUS > boards also causing problems. > > Here's the link > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28418 Put me on the list of testers if anyone is working on this... I can update this box to -current if necessary. It runs today's -stable ATM. Cheers, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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