Radeon x1600

[Paul Murphy]

Christian Reiss wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> So I fear there is no solution to get this card working in any
> way with BSD? No well-kept secret moves?
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Thanks anyway!
> -Christian Reiss.
> 
> 
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> Greetings people!
> 
> I am using FreeBSD for quiet some years now, and I just recently
> upgraded my PC. Along came a Radeon x1600 (PCIE). Before that I
> was a happy-happy joy-joy nvidia (-module) user - it just worked. ;)
> 
> Now I am having a dickens of a time to get the Radeon x1600 working
> under Xorg (latest) to work - even 2D would suffice. But google'ing
> around just yielded my own questions in several forums.
> 
> The ati and radeon drivers (native from xorg, which i am using
> out of a currents ports tree) did not work with that card.
> Unless, of course, some magic incantations are required.
> Just to be on the safe side, I am hording virgin blood right now.
> 
> Using the vesa driver my screen yells "input not supported", and
> forcing the vesa driver didnt work out. I got a TFT that can, and
> should do 1280x1024.
> 
> Using FreeBSD 6.0 Patch 4.
> 
> Any help would be more than welcome.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Christian Reiss.
> 
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I asked a similar question earlier and got the response...X1600's are
unsupported.
Does your X1600 show up in dmesg, mine doesn't. I would think that
whether or nor Xwindow System supports it doesn't matter until FreeBSD
actually detects the card.