From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jan 6 6:47:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EAB37B402 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 06:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:47:37 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: p00r0ne@digitz.org Subject: Re: ATI Mobility hell & thanks++ Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:47:03 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01123118320601.09839@snort> <0b10c1744050512FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> <02010512435408.09839@snort> In-Reply-To: <02010512435408.09839@snort> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0c28b3747140612FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, *if* you can find a Linux Mach64 config, that should work for you. I'd try the linux-for-laptops page (try Google; I tinnk it's just www.linuxforlaptops.org or something like that)--that's where I found a working one for mine. (Mine is 1400x1050 so it wouldn't work for you.) On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:43 pm, Mike Poor wrote: > Ufff... well, last night, after about a week of xf86config hell, I got X to > startup using the svga server, with XF68 3.3.6. It is currently running at > a very low resolution with a virtual desktop...arggg. > > Brian, I too have been having the problems with X -configure or even X > -probeonly. I tried, in vain, to get the proper sync rates for the Sony > Vaio FX210's monitor from Sony support. I used the ones from the linux > side. > > The reason, I found this out last night, that the linux config file does > not work with the BSD side is that the linux side is using the XF86-fbdev > server, which includes VESA and support for a large number of laptops. > > So my battle with X continues... Now to get decent resolution and no > virtual desktop (should not be that dificult <-famous last words). > > I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone on this list, for > all the help, guidance, config files ;), and advice.... Thanks! > > Mike > > On Saturday 05 January 2002 00:43, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > On Friday 04 January 2002 09:19 pm, you wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 20:18, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > > > If you use XFree86 4, you can't use xf86config, I don't think, but > > > > then again taking your file from Linux should have worked fine. > > > > Indeed, that's what I did--got somebody else's Linux config and used > > > > it. > > > > > > > > What does *not* seem to work with the ATI drivers is to use X > > > > -configure--that locks me up, too. > > > > > > Interesting; it works for me. > > > > This is from X -configure rather than from regular X with a config file? > > > > As I stated above (or tried to anyway, the line wraping might have > > confused the point I was trying to make), the ATI works great for me, too > > (under XFree86 4.x). It's just > > > > X -configure > > > > that doesn't. > > > > Here's my output, FWIW: > > > grep -i mobility /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > > 18:(**) | |-->Device "ATI|Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x" > > 168:(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF rev 0, Mem @ > > 0xe8000000/26, 0xffc000/14, I/O @ 0xcc00/8 > > 349: ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI), > > 350: ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP), > > 351: ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP) > > 357:(--) Chipset ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP) found > > 441:(--) R128(0): Chipset: "ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP)" (ChipID = > > 0x4d46) > > > > > 2@vpn85:20007 Z$ grep -i mobility /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF rev 2, Mem @ 0xf8000000/26, > > > 0xf4000000/14, I/O @ 0x2000/8 > > > ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), > > > ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP) > > > (--) Chipset ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP) found > > > (--) R128(0): Chipset: "ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP)" (ChipID = > > > 0x4c46) -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message