From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 15:12: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dev.nethouse.com (what.ifelse.org [208.171.40.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E2837B400 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from fourier.mat (242829hfc118.tampabay.rr.com [24.28.29.118]) by dev.nethouse.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2ONCRdU079912 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:12:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from btt@nethouse.com) Received: from fourier.mat (localhost.mat [127.0.0.1]) by fourier.mat (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -5) with ESMTP id g2ONAaMV000388; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:10:36 -0500 Received: (from billt@localhost) by fourier.mat (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -5) id g2ONAZbV000386; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:10:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:10:35 -0500 From: Bill Triplett To: Scott Cc: Jacques Beigbeder , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 for Asus A7A266 (rev 1.11) + ATI ?? Message-ID: <20020324231035.GA368@fourier.mat> References: <20020323155609.A7253@trefle.ens.fr> <5.1.0.14.0.20020323100830.00bbe878@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020323100830.00bbe878@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:11:53AM -0500, Scott wrote: > At 15:56 2002/03/23 +0100, Jacques Beigbeder wrote: > >I desperately try to have a working XFree86 for: > > Processor: Athlon > > Motherboard: Asus A7A66-E rev. 1.11 Mine says: ASUS A7A266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1002B http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_menu.asp?l1=1&l2=10&l3=17&mid=2 The changes added with 1009 are: 1. Add IDE ATA133 support. 2. Add ATI AGP display card patch to fix that the system can not execute AGP cycle with ATI AGP display cards. I will see if I can figure out how to flash this thing to 1009. That is something I've never done. I will have to find a way to make a bootable DOS disk for the flash program. > > FreeBSD 4.5 > > ATI Rage 128 Pro PF Setup here is: Athlon 1.4 A7A266 ATI All In Wonder Rage 128 Pro AGP 32MB XFree 4.2.0 (No DRI or agpgart or anything.) I can't even get a decent panic... just freezes :( > Not sure about the A7A66--however, there is a bug report from 4.3 Release, > recently modified but not fixed yet (I tried again last night) for the > A7A266 > > PR 28418 > IIRC the person who was working on it was wondering were some other ASUS > boards also causing problems. > > Here's the link > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28418 Put me on the list of testers if anyone is working on this... I can update this box to -current if necessary. It runs today's -stable ATM. Cheers, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message