Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:34:36 -0500 From: Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-xll@sentinelchicken.net> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of support for Radeon X200M on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070113183436.GF71215@sentinelchicken.net> In-Reply-To: <20070113061841.GA4107@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> References: <20070113061841.GA4107@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
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On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 07:18:41AM +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... > > -- > Best regards: > > Szilveszter ADAM > Budapest > Hungary I have a Fujitsu Lifebook with an X200M running X 6.9 pretty well. Initially, it was tough to get the system running right, but I think this had to do with the chipset being relatively new. I've provided some of my settings below -- maybe it will help. # uname -a FreeBSD sofie.sentinelchicken.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Nov 5 23:35:31 EST 2006 root@sofie.sentinelchicken.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOFIE amd64 # more /etc/X11/xorg.conf [snip] Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection [snip] Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" EndSection [snip] I'm no X expert -- I usually just try settings 'til it works, then I don't touch it again -- but let me know if you need anything else re: my config. Cheers, Jason Morgan
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