Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:55:04 -0500 From: Kelly Hendrix <kelly@compuage.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Dell Inspiron and Ati Rage Mobility Message-ID: <20010312125504.H2161@hnet04.kellyhendrix.com>
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Greetings
I've managed to install FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on my Inspiron 8000 laptop
with few problems, but I'm having trouble with X-Windows. According to
some of the archives I've read, XFree86 4.0.2 supports the Ati Rage
Mobility with the ati driver. I've also tried the radeon, r128, and
atimisc drivers with no success. I can get the vga driver to work, but
the resolution is so large, I personally find it unusable. With all the
drivers above, X probes the card and finds it to be an Ati Rage 128
Mobility MF rev 0. Dmesg says it's an ATI model 4d46. Anyway, X fails
to open with:
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I've included the relevant sections of my XF86Config file in case anyone
would like to look it over. If someone could point me to or send a
working XF86Config, that would be great.
TIA
Kelly Hendrix
XF86Config as generated by xf86config.
Section "Device"
Identifier "ati"
Driver "atimisc"
#VideoRam 8192
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "ati"
Monitor "lcd"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.
Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Simple Layout"
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
# right of screen 1.
Screen "Screen 1"
# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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