From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 15:10:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7751A16A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:10:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DD343D2D for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:10:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john.destefano@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so401608rnk for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.74.77 with SMTP id w77mr1582402rna; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.99.34 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:10:44 -0400 From: John DeStefano To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ATI AGP card and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John DeStefano List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:10:48 -0000 Trying to take my mind off my server exploit issue... I'm trying to configure an ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card with Xorg on a FreeBSD5.3beta2 workstation. No matter which config option I choose ('Xorg -configure', 'xorgcfg -textmode', xorgconfig), when I test the generated .conf file, the screen locks up with a bunch of colors and horizontal lines (green on top, blue everywhere else). The mouse cursor moves, but none of the Ctrl+Alt key combos work, and I can't escape the X session or access another virtual console. The "Device" section generated from 'Xorg -configure' is: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "ati" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000]" BusID "PCI:3:0:0" Here's any related output I can think of from 'pciconf -lv': agp0@pci0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01e010de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' device = 'nForce2 AGP Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI . . . none9@pci3:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x20021002 chip=0x49661002 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.' device = 'RV250 Radeon 9000/9000 Pro' class = display subclass = VGA none10@pci3:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x20031002 chip=0x496e1002 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc.' device = 'RV250 Radeon 9000/9000 Pro - Secondary' class = display I thought it might be an AGP/kernel issue, but when I try 'kldload agp' I get back "File exists", and when I do 'kldstat -n agp' or 'kldunload' I get "No such file". I tried someone else's bare-bones "radeon" conf file, and I got the same problem as always on test: blue/green garbled screen, mouse moves, can't escape out of locked-up X. I then replaced the "radeon" Driver entry with "vesa" in the config. When I tested this, it showed a different garbled screen (grey this time) for a few seconds, then clicked to a "normal" X-Windows screen, but with a black hourglass outline on the sides. I was able to Ctl+Alt+Backspace out of this as normal, and the console didn't report any warnings or errors. I then moved this config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and ran 'startx'. It started fine and looked as described above, with an hourglass outline. When I exited X, there were some errors on the console that were probably just from exiting out of X, and this one: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "my.hostname.com:0" in "remove" command Any ideas on how to get this card working properly? BTW: I began using FreeBSD5.3beta2 on this machine for its NDIS support for my onboard NIC. Thanks, ~John