From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 14:50:50 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 23AE2106564A for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 14:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacques.fourie@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68198FC0C for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 14:50:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacques.fourie@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so742793ywh.13 for ; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:50:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; 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=4G2q6nqi8VVkkP9TQM5jg9q+jejzbr7CAwD6GvdQvbo=; b=uB3pg5ED8d3gOGQHKoWHeOejP9pec+CzEBw7dRgJ3QtQxIpGJuorggg1xaR8nomVRbjVVqWooKLtJy2pPNiSWHp6tSAexFKOyBfpHfwoV/f2PcXeSp/ZswyAWF2zoPWv6xl8UmnQSvI2U82MtkJhLW63dCQOOl/2LqIoQc6pIIQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IgNREcYJ72hhnOlznkN9PeP3RDwMfl+0n04CYH5d15qHrUdl7D0YHXcAHmrDFbPAkRDaEJd/ptxRXZ4MvMdlxNeBlUw5qokxRoPeED87R+3dkWsaVPOGNzXVg+mARp4EhqEAv8d+DIC+FthjveaLd1+k97jQioI1x+XFPcOATCk= Received: by 10.142.226.2 with SMTP id y2mr1300169wfg.64.1209739848762; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.204.7 with HTTP; Fri, 2 May 2008 07:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:50:48 +0200 From: "Jacques Fourie" To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de In-Reply-To: <20080502150503.370b8fa0@peedub.jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080501120805.0fede9c2.adamk@voicenet.com> <1209661091.76802.0.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com.cox.net> <20080502150503.370b8fa0@peedub.jennejohn.org> 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 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 14:50:50 -0000 On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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 > The X700 in my notebook is the mobility version, so I guess that's why the radeon driver doesn't work for me.