Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:39:37 +0100 From: Marco Trentini <mark@remotelab.org> To: auto68980@hushmail.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [XFree86] Radeon 9200 256MB Produces Garbled Screen With CVS Version Of XFree86 Message-ID: <20040124133937.GA870@einstein.lab> In-Reply-To: <200401240019.i0O0Jg6f009661@mailserver3.hushmail.com> References: <200401240019.i0O0Jg6f009661@mailserver3.hushmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:19:42PM -0800, auto68980@hushmail.com wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Should this be cc'd to the list? Yes ... done. > > >Two things: > > > >1)How did you build the XFree86 taken from CVS? > > I checked it out: > > CVS_RSH=ssh > CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.xfree86.org:/cvs > export CVS_RSH CVSROOT > checkout xc > > I read the instructions and compiled it like this: > > cd xc > make World > make install > make install.man > Without any patches? As you can see in the file directory of the XFree86-4-Server port there are a lot of patches to apply before to compile the sources. IMO it is not as easy to compile XFree86 under FreeBSD. > >2)Have you tried the XFree86 -configure command to auto-generate > >the > >configuration file? > > Yes, it says: > > (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) > found > > but this is the secondary device on the card, right? > Use scanpci(1) to find your card. > (EE) RADEON(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range > > OK, so this memory address looks somewhat suspicious, but I don't know > much about video memory, it could start at 0x0 couldn't it? Or does FreeBSD > map all memory as one flat memory including the video memory? > This could be a patch problem. > > > >I think your card will be completely supported in the imminent new > >XFree86 relese as you can see here > >http://www.xfree86.org/snapshot/radeon.4.html > > I hope so, I mean, they shouldn't really claim that it is supported if > it isn't should they? But I suppose this doesn't apply to the CVS version, > only the official release. So hopefully it will work. > The your assumption is right ... that is a snapshot version :) Wait the release. -- Marco Trentini mark@remotelab.org http://www.remotelab.org/
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