From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 22:02:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D08016A417 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0480E13C465 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:02:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so7512868pyb for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:02:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=e4t3J/cGcoIaRq82Ncda8zlq/7cbKlmxY0UeB1JQmyo=; b=phccoL5ZaUTubQbCqgua3rireOqhj1x2QxKKrWOHeRpIhVRK3EQeOztpjugvmzNRrQomHVOLo0rygud9FUH2rPNsr31ZMnHThpKpLCuH/zvnSjMM8ZPGjxnrYUunJtWWXpCtAr+uOuZSChzLQ+lcLkGZk1/Pd/v4D+Wj0Q1IBlw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tyvsCyZPl5Sqiet74dXRNrhGYwTStqpZIw1r523A1+sjGrGcmgGzSKRZgyvgHco2kT6i3dV1zBCpavtw2xaRIhcXUevP8Z/Jyvo4frJ6xQVRFiWTx0rT355FUT+dENjdnRpYhlbpNl4biDinI+5qKn1eoM8SBBHAn7j5yw2pUQo= Received: by 10.65.52.1 with SMTP id e1mr5111251qbk.1191276116500; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.91.18 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990710011501t50bc6fc9x250e3ed8b1169445@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:01:56 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071001071257.GA3507@mugin.localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071001071257.GA3507@mugin.localhost> Cc: freebsd@elgert.dk Subject: Re: Video chipset hardware list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:02:02 -0000 On 10/1/07, Harry Matthiesen Jensen wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to lookup a hardware list "video chipset supported" > on x.org, but for some reason I can't find anything. > > Is there a good hint where to find it? > I have had pretty good results looking at man pages for individual drivers. If you already have a system and want to estimate your chance of success, this is a good approach. For example, the radeon(4x) page correctly fails to list my RV516 chipset as supported... 8( And nVidia also provides proprietary FreeBSD drivers for their chipsets, so their website may be helpful. I don't know if ATI's proprietary driver is usable on FreeBSD. Keep in mind that the vesa driver will get almost anything working, although without the full performance of a chipset-specific driver. The "Xorg -configure" command is quite good at selecting the correct driver, so it is often easier to just try it and see what happens rather than reading a lot of driver documentation to see if your chipset is supported. The x.org web site is a poor place to look for documentation, so you should probably look at the man pages at freebsd.org if you haven't already installed x.org on your system. Good luck! - Bob