Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:53:26 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: mpayne@hpcoatings.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 7000 & X11 & FreeBSD 4.5 RC Message-ID: <20020127225327.0FA842D9@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020127193452.BXNV14335.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there> References: <20020127193452.BXNV14335.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there>
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On Sunday 27 January 2002 10:35 am, Matt Payne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wondering if anyone has had any experience with getting this card to work
> successfully. The card is a 32 MB DDR agp card on an Asus A7A266
> motherboard with an ALiMAGiK 1 chipset. I've flashed the BIOS to the most
> recent update.
>
> I've tried to use it by adding both "options agp" to my kernel and via
> DRM-KMOD. The kernel picks it up as agp0 and DRM-KMOD actually recognizes
> it as a Radeon card.
>
> I've tried using both the ports version of X11 (4.1_XX) as well as the most
> recent cvs version.
>
> The problem is that no matter what I do, my computer either freezes
> entirely or reboots. This happens with XFree86 -configure, xf86cfg, startx,
> etc. The only config option that works is xf86config, which, of course
> doesn't list this particular card and which doesn't create a useable
> XF86Config file.
>
> I've also tried installing from ports anything I've see mentioned on the
> web, such as linux-DRI.
>
> If anyone has successfully managed to get a similar setup working, I'd be
> really interested to hear about how you did it. I realise this may be a
> long shot.
>
> Please cc me in your replies. This email address is not on the list.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Matt
>
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If you haven't already, upgrade to the latest XFree86 (ports). I believe they
have included Radeon support. As an alternate I got a Radeon 7200 working
using the Mach64 driver. Your mileage may vary.
Beech
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