From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 13:05:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53951065670 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 13:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA388FC14 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 13:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.15] (helo=5.mx.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jruwi-000715-9x; Fri, 02 May 2008 15:05:04 +0200 Received: from r8e47.r.pppool.de ([89.54.142.71]:26366 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 5.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #12) id 1Jruwi-0006As-1n; Fri, 02 May 2008 15:05:04 +0200 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:05:03 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: "Jacques Fourie" Message-ID: <20080502150503.370b8fa0@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080501120805.0fede9c2.adamk@voicenet.com> <1209661091.76802.0.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com.cox.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 13:05:07 -0000 On Fri, 2 May 2008 11:55:03 +0200 "Jacques Fourie" wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Robert Noland wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:19 +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote: > > > I tried the radeon driver but somehow couldn't get it to work. If I > > > start X the screen displays some strange looking artifacts :). I'll > > > give it another go - I'll definitely prefer running the radeon driver > > > if possible. > > > > What does pciconf -lv show for your hardware? > > > > robert. > > > > Here is the relevant output from pciconf. > > vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x0934103c chip=0x56531002 > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' > device = 'Mobility Radeon X700' > class = display > subclass = VGA > > I tried version 6.8.0 of the radeon driver as well as 6.7.196. I also > tried various Xorg config settings such as specifying mode lines and > sync ranges but no luck. > I don't know whether this helps, but the radeon man page states that the driver supports the X700, but not necessarily the mobility version. I don't know whether the M26 PCIE is the mobility version or not. Linux users seem to have lots of problems with this chip too, as revealed by a quick google search. --- Gary Jennejohn