Xorg and ATI card query.

Stanislav Sedov stas at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 13 09:24:47 UTC 2007


On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:07 +0000
Yann Golanski <yann at kierun.org> mentioned:

> I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD working
> with it.  My system is a clean install of FreBSD.   I've managed to get
> VESA to "work" but cannot get much more than that.
>
> fglrx gives me an error at compile time since I do not have
> /usr/X11R6/bin/moc installed.
>
> Would an install of Xorg 7 be useful here?  What else can I try?   I
> know I could use Linux and the ATI drivers but I'd rather use FreeBSD if
> possible.
>
> FreeBSD nightwatch.neverness.org 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007     root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>
> Find attached the dmesg, xorg.conf and /var/log/xorg.0.log files.  If anyone
> wants more information let me know.
>
> I am happy to beta-test software to get this to work.
>

AFAIK, opensource Xorg ati drivers doesn't work with anything beyond
x1800. flgrx is only linux binary, however, so you couldn't use it for
FreeBSD.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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