Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:09:41 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of support for Radeon X200M on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1168690181.72501.1.camel@sorrow.ashke.com> In-Reply-To: <20070113061841.GA4107@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> References: <20070113061841.GA4107@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
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On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 07:18 +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Hello everybody, > > After the recent threads about ATI support here on the list I would like > to inquire about the status of X support for the X200M on FreeBSD. > > Background: I have a ThinkPad R51e with this integrated chip, and when I > tried to install 7.0-CURRENT and the 6.9 version of xorg from ports, the > radeon driver failed to work. All it did was to switch the screen into > graphics mode and then there it stayed, completely black (with > occasional blurred greenish lines in some cases) and it was not possible > to get either a working X display or a text console back. The machine > did not freeze, it was possible to use it remotely, in fact it even > reacted to keys pressed on the keboard, only the screen was unusable > until a reboot. The vesa(4) driver worked of course, but I would like to > have xvideo and 2D acceleration support if possible. (I am aware that 3D > accel does not work on these chips yet except for the fglrx driver) > > Later I tried an Ubuntu live CD that came with xorg 7.1.1 and also used > the radeon driver, and the X display worked there. > > So my question is: is it something that I am doing wrong, or does the > X200M really not work with the radeon driver in the xorg port that we > have now (either on RELENG_6 or HEAD) If it does not work now, is this > likely different in the new modular xorg version that is up for testing? > > The X200M is rather frequently found in modern laptops, so I hope that > people have some experience... I have no experience with that chipset, however Xorg 6.9 is very old these days. You may want to try using the Modular Xorg ports tree. The directions are here: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg Adam
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