Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 00:38:15 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg - getting VESA to work on a Radeon Xpress 200? Message-ID: <427C5447.9090800@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050505051530.3235b224.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20050505051530.3235b224.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA514610C9B277565E2779A04 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/04/05 22:15, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > I have an amd64 machine, it has a RS480M2-IL (aka MS-7093) mainboard > (don't ask me what the '-IL' means, I have no idea). > I run the FreeBSD 5-stable branch on the machine: > root@kg-quiet# uname -a > FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Tue May 3 > 22:40:03 CEST 2005 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET > amd64 > > This mainboard have "ATI Radeon Xpress 200" integrated graphics, which > currently isn't supported by any ATI drivers, AFAIK. So I have to use > the VESA driver. > I run this with Xorg 6.8.2 from ports, using the vesa driver, on an LCD > that have 1280x1024 as native resolution. The problem has been that the > vesa driver behaves odd; text (any text) is "blurred" (for lack of a > better word) so that it is difficult / imposiible to read. Except for > that (not so small) problem, Xorg has been working without problems. > > Recently I noticed that there was a new port; xorg-server-snap > (6.8.99.5), so I tried that one. First I tried to autodetect drivers; > xorg suggested the 'ati' driver, but that makes a mess of the display. > so back to the vesa driver again. And to my joy I discovered that text > was crisp and readable again! Nice! > But there is one problem: xorg won't do 1280x1024 anymore. > The log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) contains this line: > > (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name) > > Huh? Earlier on in the log file, it reported: > (II) VESA(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: > (II) VESA(0): 720x400@70Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@60Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@67Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@72Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 800x600@60Hz > (II) VESA(0): 800x600@72Hz > (II) VESA(0): 800x600@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 832x624@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@60Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@70Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1280x1024@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1152x870@75Hz > > The complete Xorg.0.log file is attached. > I tried searching on the net (ok, "googling"), but didn't find anything > that helped. > > Any hints on what I can try to fix this? Support for your chipset was added at the end of March, so it definitely should be in 6.8.99.5: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827 Try the radeon driver. You may get the same results as the ati driver (I think ati is a generic name that gets you radeon, r128, etc.), but radeon is the correct choice. If it doesn't work you should file a bug. I'm not sure how to fix your VESA problem... -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enigA514610C9B277565E2779A04 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCfFRPUFz01pkdgZURAv3bAJ48d3wH3X0PooU57sRxk4iyFD4c4gCgxz0u oFYHIvm2SBUL0wT151g6bIk= =dZOb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA514610C9B277565E2779A04--
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