Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:30:27 +0100 From: carlo.matteotti@bluewin.ch To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Is radeon generic driver broken ? Message-ID: <41F592F90000373B@mssazhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch>
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Hello all, im using the latest xorg port on my FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE machine. The box has a RADEON X600 graphic card. The generic radeon driver used to work properly until I portupgraded xorg* two or three days ago. Since then X freezes the machine immediately after 'startx' ( X fires up and then freezes the hole box completely). I portupgraded again xorg* last night but the same problem remains. I read in bugreports at bugzilla.org that people used to have similiar problems with the radeon driver. But, if I change the 'radeon' driver entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the generic 'vesa' then X works propely but just at a fixed Horizontal frequency of 76Hz which is slightly suboptimal. I can live with this solution but here is my (maybe stupid) question: Could it be harmful to the graphic chip, when using an incorrect driver ? Many thnakns for any reply Carlo.
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