Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7

Coleman Kane cokane at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 2 15:43:07 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:55 +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:19 +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote:
> >  > I tried the radeon driver but somehow couldn't get it to work. If I
> >  > start X the screen displays some strange looking artifacts :). I'll
> >  > give it another go - I'll definitely prefer running the radeon driver
> >  > if possible.
> >
> >  What does pciconf -lv show for your hardware?
> >
> >  robert.
> >
> 
> Here is the relevant output from pciconf.
> 
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x0934103c chip=0x56531002
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>     device     = 'Mobility Radeon X700'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
> 
> I tried version 6.8.0 of the radeon driver as well as 6.7.196. I also
> tried various Xorg config settings such as specifying mode lines and
> sync ranges but no luck.
> 
> Jacques

Have you tried contacting xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org or filing a PR on
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ ?

-- 
Coleman Kane
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