Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:14:25 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com> Cc: Ronny Fischer <black@black.ch> Subject: Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <20050108115902.S50168@pemaquid.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <20050108055611.GA27077@panix.com> References: <20050106232123.AC3BA16A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> <20050108055611.GA27077@panix.com>
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Thanks Joe I will try to upgrade. My experience was the same, in that the problem tracked X (both projects) across several levels of 4.x and 5.x. The vesa drive works okay, but I miss the larger screen and better font rendering. On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Joe Altman wrote: > Doug, Ronny... > > I'm running 4.11 with xorg 6.8.1, built from source on December 28, > 2004 using a Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x on an IBM ThinkPad A20m. I have > a default depth of 24 bits, and a resolution of 1024x768. I am using > the ati driver. > > Ronny: I see that the query is for 5.3, but I thought that perhaps my > experience would indicate that the ATI chip seems to work fine w/ the > most recent version of xorg; or rather, the source as it existed on > December 28th. > > Doug: I remember that you and I encountered the same issue, back in > September or thereabouts, WRT the ATI chip? I'm happy to report what > is above: it seems to be safe to use the ati driver w/ the newest > source for xorg and the chip in question. > > HTH, best regards, > > Joe > _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601
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