Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:41:21 -0500 From: "Paul Murphy" <paul.murphy@cogeco.ca> To: "'Christian Reiss'" <email@demonlord.de>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Radeon x1600 Message-ID: <008901c6340a$e6a1ab70$0300a8c0@earth> In-Reply-To: <43F5E42F.8010807@demonlord.de>
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Christian Reiss wrote: > Hello all, > > So I fear there is no solution to get this card working in any > way with BSD? No well-kept secret moves? > > Oh well. > > Thanks anyway! > -Christian Reiss. > > > --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- > > Greetings people! > > I am using FreeBSD for quiet some years now, and I just recently > upgraded my PC. Along came a Radeon x1600 (PCIE). Before that I > was a happy-happy joy-joy nvidia (-module) user - it just worked. ;) > > Now I am having a dickens of a time to get the Radeon x1600 working > under Xorg (latest) to work - even 2D would suffice. But google'ing > around just yielded my own questions in several forums. > > The ati and radeon drivers (native from xorg, which i am using > out of a currents ports tree) did not work with that card. > Unless, of course, some magic incantations are required. > Just to be on the safe side, I am hording virgin blood right now. > > Using the vesa driver my screen yells "input not supported", and > forcing the vesa driver didnt work out. I got a TFT that can, and > should do 1280x1024. > > Using FreeBSD 6.0 Patch 4. > > Any help would be more than welcome. > > Kind regards, > Christian Reiss. > > --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- --- 8< --- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I asked a similar question earlier and got the response...X1600's are unsupported. Does your X1600 show up in dmesg, mine doesn't. I would think that whether or nor Xwindow System supports it doesn't matter until FreeBSD actually detects the card.
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