From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 1 22:50:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DB637B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 22:50:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4146E43EC5 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 22:50:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (12-224-152-126.client.attbi.com[12.224.152.126]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with SMTP id <2003010206505305100ofal4e>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:50:53 +0000 Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: X hangups using radeon driver From: Eric Anholt To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1041490252.661.3.camel@abbey> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 01 Jan 2003 22:50:53 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 12:14, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > I downloaded a 5.0-RC2 ISO, checked the MD5 against a different mirror's > MD5, burned a CD, diff'ed the CD against the ISO, and installed the OS. > My first try using the full-GUI X installer failed gracefully (I forget > the details). The other two X installers didn't offer to support my > video card, so I tried the full-GUI one again. It offered something > called "ati". I'm not sure why it said "ati" rather than what my old > XF86Config used "radeon", but it seemed close enough. IIRC, it wasn't The 'ati' driver detects what type of ATI card you have and loads the appropriate driver (radeon, r128, atimisc). -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/ anholt@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message