State of support for Radeon X200M on FreeBSD?

[Jason Morgan]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 07:18:41AM +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> After the recent threads about ATI support here on the list I would like
> to inquire about the status of X support for the X200M on FreeBSD.
> 
> Background: I have a ThinkPad R51e with this integrated chip, and when I
> tried to install 7.0-CURRENT and the 6.9 version of xorg from ports, the
> radeon driver failed to work. All it did was to switch the screen into
> graphics mode and then there it stayed, completely black (with
> occasional blurred greenish lines in some cases) and it was not possible
> to get either a working X display or a text console back. The machine
> did not freeze, it was possible to use it remotely, in fact it even
> reacted to keys pressed on the keboard, only the screen was unusable
> until a reboot. The vesa(4) driver worked of course, but I would like to
> have xvideo and 2D acceleration support if possible. (I am aware that 3D
> accel does not work on these chips yet except for the fglrx driver) 
> 
> Later I tried an Ubuntu live CD that came with xorg 7.1.1 and also used
> the radeon driver, and the X display worked there.
> 
> So my question is: is it something that I am doing wrong, or does the
> X200M really not work with the radeon driver in the xorg port that we
> have now (either on RELENG_6 or HEAD) If it does not work now, is this
> likely different in the new modular xorg version that is up for testing?
> 
> The X200M is rather frequently found in modern laptops, so I hope that
> people have some experience...
> 
> -- 
> Best regards:
> 
> Szilveszter ADAM
> Budapest
> Hungary

I have a Fujitsu Lifebook with an X200M running X 6.9 pretty
well. Initially, it was tough to get the system running right, but I
think this had to do with the chipset being relatively new. I've
provided some of my settings below -- maybe it will help.

# uname -a
FreeBSD sofie.sentinelchicken.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Nov 5 23:35:31 EST 2006
root at sofie.sentinelchicken.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOFIE amd64

# more /etc/X11/xorg.conf
[snip]
Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection
[snip]
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
[snip]

I'm no X expert -- I usually just try settings 'til it works, then I
don't touch it again -- but let me know if you need anything else re:
my config.


Cheers,

Jason Morgan