Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:31:04 -0600 From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Milton_C=c3=a9sar_Disegna_de_Souza_Leite?= <miltoncsl@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Radeon Video Card Support. Message-ID: <56D866C8.1010102@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <422500245.2892780.1457015107327.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <56D79FDF.6040201@gmail.com> <422500245.2892780.1457015107327.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello Milton,
What I meant by tweaking the driver was editing the source code, not
xorg.conf.
E.g.
cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
make patch
Edit one of the source files in work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src. It might
be something as simple as your chipset revision not being listed in the
header:
<<<ROOT@unixdev.local>>> /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati 1034 #
grep -i x1900 work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/*
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7243, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7245, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7246, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7247, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7248, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7249, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_724A, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_724B, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_724C, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_724D, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_724F, "ATI Radeon X1900" },
work/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0/src/radeon_chipset_gen.h: {
PCI_CHIP_R580_7284, "ATI Mobility Radeon X1900" },
This is just a guess based on past experience with driver issues. Since
very few BSD/Linux users have this card, it's possible that a simple fix
like this was never attempted.
Cheers,
Jason
On 03/03/16 08:25, Milton César Disegna de Souza Leite wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> I already had read the content of the page that you indicated. I did
> tweaking in xorg.conf used some of the options listed but I don't
> obtained sucess still.
> In my researches, I saw that many people have the same problem and
> that doesn't is so easy to make radeon driver to recognize the chipset
> as one if its supported models mainly for those that does not have a
> deep experience with the system (Xorg in Linux or FreeBSD).
> Of course that situation how this is one opportunity to learn and gain
> experience.
> I want to remember that I was referring specifically about the support
> for Radeon X1900 Mac Edition and that how I said many people are
> having problems to configure.
> I Mentioned the Luigi's job how one way for around the problem of the
> X1900 and to ask one indication for to help find the solution.
> Milton César Disegna de Souza Leite
>
> "Preocupe-se mais com sua consciência do que com sua reputação. Porque
> sua consciência é o que você é, e sua reputação é o que os outros
> pensam de você. E o que os outros pensam, é problema deles."
>
>
>
> Em Quarta-feira, 2 de Março de 2016 23:22, Jason Bacon
> <bacon4000@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>
>
> If you can find out what it's most similar to that *is* supported by
> Xorg, there's a chance it will prove very easy to add support for it.
>
> There is support for the X1900 series:
> http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.6/doc/man/man4/radeon.4.xhtml
>
> It *could* prove to be as easy as tweaking the radeon driver to
> recognize the chipset as one if its supported models. Or, it could mean
> studying the spec sheet and writing hundreds of lines of new code. :-/
> Only one way to find out...
>
> On 03/02/2016 19:47, Joe Nosay wrote:
> > Oi,
> > Qual e' and all that.
> > This is somewhat of a X11 problem and not just PPC.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Milton César Disegna de Souza Leite <
> > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> There are any news about support for Radeon video card in Powermacs G5
> >> late 2005? More especifically about video cards Radeon X1900 Mac
> Edition.I
> >> have one PowerMac G5 2.0GHz dual core with Radeon X1900. This card work
> >> with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 without problems but not in FreeBSD
> 10.x. It
> >> does not work also in Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu Mate (distros that
> I have
> >> tested in my ppc).I searched by others card that can function in
> Powermac
> >> and I discovered that Radeon HD series can work in Linux (4650 and
> 6570 are
> >> examples that I have found) like a second video card until with 3D
> (Thank
> >> for Luigi Burdo).There are any similar attempts for FreeBSD for
> Radeon HD
> >> series?
> >>
> >> Milton César Disegna de Souza Leite
> >>
> >> "Preocupe-se mais com sua consciência do que com sua reputação.
> Porque sua
> >> consciência é o que você é, e sua reputação é o que os outros pensam de
> >> você. E o que os outros pensam, é problema deles."
> >>
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