Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:50:48 +0200 From: "Jacques Fourie" <jacques.fourie@gmail.com> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7 Message-ID: <be2f52430805020750t7f86cd9eh16b4b62730e00dd8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080502150503.370b8fa0@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <be2f52430805010835l1524853cx9bb50d4871150e49@mail.gmail.com> <20080501120805.0fede9c2.adamk@voicenet.com> <be2f52430805010919v5279d6d9j7a1f8bdadcdb375e@mail.gmail.com> <1209661091.76802.0.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com.cox.net> <be2f52430805020255m1db5b646q4dc1eb8c49a8f9cc@mail.gmail.com> <20080502150503.370b8fa0@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2008 11:55:03 +0200 > > "Jacques Fourie" <jacques.fourie@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:19 +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote: > > > > I tried the radeon driver but somehow couldn't get it to work. If I > > > > start X the screen displays some strange looking artifacts :). I'll > > > > give it another go - I'll definitely prefer running the radeon driver > > > > if possible. > > > > > > What does pciconf -lv show for your hardware? > > > > > > robert. > > > > > > > Here is the relevant output from pciconf. > > > > vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x0934103c chip=0x56531002 > > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' > > device = 'Mobility Radeon X700' > > class = display > > subclass = VGA > > > > I tried version 6.8.0 of the radeon driver as well as 6.7.196. I also > > tried various Xorg config settings such as specifying mode lines and > > sync ranges but no luck. > > > > I don't know whether this helps, but the radeon man page states that the > driver supports the X700, but not necessarily the mobility version. > I don't know whether the M26 PCIE is the mobility version or not. > > Linux users seem to have lots of problems with this chip too, as revealed > by a quick google search. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn > The X700 in my notebook is the mobility version, so I guess that's why the radeon driver doesn't work for me.
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