FreeBSD-Current and XFree86
James Tanis
jtanis at charter.net
Thu Oct 23 17:00:43 PDT 2003
Attempted this, first did a deinstall of XFree86-Server and then
built/installed XFree86-Server-snap. It built and installed perfectly fine,
from what I can see it runs fine too.. but I get the same error. You
weren't wrong, in the log once of the supported cards listed is the ATI
Radeon 9800 NH (AGP), although I have no idea what the NH stands for. The
only problem is I'm getting the same exact error I was previously..
From the log file:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.
I did not attempt any different settings from the norm at this
time since, if my memory serves me right this is the same exact error I was
getting before and nothing I tried seemed to fix it. Here is the device
section as it is now for my radeon 9800, these are the same settings that I
used to use and worked perfectly fine with my radeon 7000, although I have
tried a config without the extra options it did not seems to help nor is
their any reason that I can think of that these options would not work with
the 9800.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon 9800"
Driver "radeon"
#VideoRam 131072
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
EndSection
My problems seem to stem from the fact that the driver has no idea
what to do with BusID PCI 1:0:1 which may or may not be the actual device
that I want to be using.. I have no idea what to do about it though. This
is a plain vanilla ATI Radeon 9800 (AGP) not a pro or some other
upgraded/downgraded version.. I would think this would be supported by the
driver.
Thanks again for any input, James.
At 05:12 PM 10/23/2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:59, James Tanis wrote:
> > I'm having problems with XFree86 that result from the fact that
> > the ATI Radeon 9800 is not supported by the current 4.3.0 radeon driver. I
> > would like to upgrade to current/cvs version of XFree86, 4.3.99 since the
> > next release isn't going to be for around another 2 months. My question
> is,
> > what is the most flawless way to do this? Is there a FreeBSD concentric
> > repository, or should I just get the sources from the standard XFree86 cvs
> > repository? Is there a place where I can instead get frequently updated
> > ports of the repository? Building from source is there any configure
> > switches that I need to successfully build? Last but not least is it
> > possible to build only the radeon drivers and use those in 4.3.0.. if so,
> > how do I go about doing that? I had some problems when I only downloaded
> > the graphics drivers module.
> > Thanks for any
>
>Please use XFree86-4-Server-snap if you are looking for CVS X Server.
>The snap is slightly out of date due to problems getting 4.2.99.14
>building (the monolithic nature of XFree86 is a major issue for
>maintaining these ports), but it should include radeon 9800 support.
>
>--
>Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
>http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt at FreeBSD.org
>
>
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