From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 19:04:33 2008 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 8F5611065671 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:04:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cory.vm@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C6A8FC19 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:04:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cory.vm@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so3024361wfa.7 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:04:33 -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:mime-version:content-type; bh=xxBzRYicD0af9TfoWwx6GDogqVQiRFvrjJpKtssqbLc=; b=lK0I/6A9DRr+sVj+KeadjcMA8RiAeb7SSOZAxnSg55y555xF2+HOuF7CkugdB3nBA8oPFr9mvrT7fy7KbSGDq/E5nt9sDMoKPCbgRyEfyd2ENHdeqesPCST/PD4DuX9nb6cT+lQ30ueNWApnE555M3zOMPq+cpgtmn9AcjZwQP8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=P/+AaO052wM5dQ4/YsZk4O5cbdWQnXL1UeK+F1b8JemZnyt6iwzKkSGxNPveINRUDHqb4nqRpD9dO519NfA4dNJHJmed2pw5IFIcWWz+MH6q4LiBW+ZtEnU8qy/zG8YLWPrYgyPVevSZHL2U9jHaihGXpjli5bx87hBp+YDnGfY= Received: by 10.142.225.11 with SMTP id x11mr4322601wfg.204.1206470151654; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.119.12 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4b7dda430803251135r46bb3ba0n746bc6971994db7e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:35:51 +0100 From: "C Verboom" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Xorg & ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE? 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: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:04:33 -0000 Hi All, Just new here, so if this has been dealt with before, pls excuse me. I've seen only a few posts dealing w/ ATi drivers ("ati" and "radeon") on v7.0-STABLE and Xorg, and together with my own experience I'm inclined to suspect there's something wrong with this combo. Or "wrong"... it may need special attention, but I lack the knowledge to prove or find a definitive answer, and you ppl here might. For a while I've been running 6.2-STABLE w/ Xorg on a Dell Latitude C610. Worked nicely @ 1400x1050, no problems. A few days ago I've performed a fresh install of 7.0-STABLE. The install was done for User/X-User, nothing (cvs, ports, etc) has been added or modified apart from network settings to be able to ssh/scp. The problem: there's no way that I can get a decent graphics resolution like I was used to. The only one xorg.conf setting that resulted in stable graphics was 'Driver "vga"' and 'Mode "640x480"'. For the last 2 days (with the help of numerous Ati and Xorg-related posts on the net and c/p from my old xorg.conf) I've been trying to apply any reasonable setting using the "ati" and "radeon" drivers, only to see a blurred screen: HorizSync and/or VertSync way off, flickering and scrolling bars. No visible diff in the blurr w/ modified sync numbers, but no hang-ups as others seem to have stumbled upon: I can always kill the server w/ C-A-BS. Sometimes something seemed to happen (KDE starting? I never waited long before I killed the server...) as I did see a partial light-colored change in the blurr. Comparing the log of my old setup (I've put the image back twice over to check), there's a few -in my little experience- important differences with output of drivers and modules, or at least the way things such as capacities and capabilities are displayed, so under the hood there's so much changes that I cannot reasonably grasp what exactly is different and in what way... for which I apologize, but I'm bold enough to suspect.. So: is the problem with me or with the new ... (drivers, modules, ???) -- Greetings, biped! (c)ory