Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:36:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: exiaf_radar_guy38@yahoo.co.in Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9600xt (256MB DDR) on FreeBSD 6.2 ; solved? Message-ID: <200705142136.l4ELaDCL020078@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:18:22 +0100 (BST) dharam paul
<exiaf_radar_guy38@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>That is right sir, thugh kde package was installed,
>but
>% echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
>was still required to be passed to X server.
>
>The display is as if the screen is diagonally right
>shifted (i.e. there is empty space at the left and at
>the bottom)
>I am using VESA driver. Is further improvement
>possible so that display is stretched to whole screen.
>I have googled about this problem, but so far the
>solution seems to be a little away.
The VESA driver is not optimal for that card. The radeon driver will
at least get you 2-D acceleration, though not 3-D. The reason xorg -configure
doesn't find your card is most likely the absence of a radeon kernel driver
in your kernel. FreeBSD 6.1 still needed the following two lines added to
the kernel configuration, though 6.2 doesn't seem to need them.
device drm
device radeondrm
I don't recall whether you stated which version of FreeBSD you were using.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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