newbie quest: freeBSD 4.8-rel, running X fails on my laptop w. an ATI Radeon IGP 340M

[Sondre Rønjom]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Mikael Lönnqvist wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm having a problem running X on my Laptop, FreeBSD-4.8-release, Xfree86 Vers. 4.3.0 (out of ports) 
> The laptop (Fujitsu, 2Hgz, 512MB RAM) has an ATI Radeon IGP 340M, 32MB graphics
> chip in it. It's running on PCI bus 1, device 5, funct0. 
> 
> I'm getting this error msg:
> 
> (EE) No devices detected
> Fatal server error: no screens found
> 
> tailing /var/log/XF86Config.0.log produces the same as above. 
> 
> No matter what i try, I can't seem to get it working...
> 
> A colleague of mine running Mandrake 9.1 has an identical machine as mine, and has hot Xfree86 4.3.0
> Working - so i tried copying his XF86Config file,,, except for the fonts statements,
> which has been changed/modified in Mandrake in order for to use it's own font server.
> 
> Doesn't help... and I don't want to run Mandrake;-)
> 
> I't looks like the Radeon chip is not found, doesn't it? (according to the Error)
> 
> Anywone got a clue? I've tried searching everything everywhere via Google but 
> have come up with nothing useful.
> 
> Please accept my apologies if this is the wrong forum, or if i'm posting this in some way i should not
> 
> Best Regards
> /Mikael

What you can try first of all if you don't know how to configure 
XF86Config you can try let X configure itself by doing 
' XFree86 -configure '. If this works you have a start for tweaking your X 
;)

/sondre