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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:01:07 -0500
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk>
Cc:        AMD64 FreeBSD <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and Gnome 2.4
Message-ID:  <20040312220106.GJ93883@chaos.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <E4B3E3B5-1DEC-11B2-9A8B-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk>
References:  <2495DDA6-7450-11D8-B264-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk> <1079160060.13141.2.camel@home> <E4B3E3B5-1DEC-11B2-9A8B-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk>

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On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 04:11:57AM +0100, Bin Ren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can install XFree86 4.3 by binary. But I can only find 'vga' driver 
> to work
> for my ATI Radeon 9600. I tried both 'vesa' and 'ati' but both with 
> error
> 'no screen found. no device driver ...' With 'vga' driver, the 
> resolution is
> formidable '640x480'. Any suggestion for ATI users?
> 
> With 5.2-current i386 version, I use 'vesa' as XFree86 version and with
> resolution 1280x1024.
> 

Newer Radeons require XFree >= 3.99.x.  Try either using the
x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap port or compile the recent
XFree 4.4.0 release manually.

-- 
Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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