Crucial Radeon 9800pro and XFree86
Dan Strick
strick at covad.net
Wed Aug 20 17:54:44 PDT 2003
> I've recently acquired a radeon 9800pro and am now trying to get it
> working on XFree86 with no luck.
>
> I'm using XFree86-4.3.0 on FreeBSD 4.8
> ...
> I've added the following to my config file:
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "radeon"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> When I run startx I get the following error:
> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1)
> found
>
> If I change the busid in the config to PCI:1:0:1 I then get an error
> complaining that no Device section for PCI:1:0:0 is found
>
> The card does have dual output but I'm only trying to use the main VGA
> connector. Am I even using the right device for the 9800pro ?
(Oops.) I guess my previous observation that the 9800 is not fully
supported may be irrelevant.
You can verify the PCI address of your video card by doing "pciconf -lv".
Dan Strick
strick at covad.net
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