ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP on 5.3beta2

[Ed Budd]

John DeStefano wrote:
> I'm trying to get my ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP video card to oplay nice
> with with Xorg on FreeBSD5.3beta2.  Since I've already asked for help,
> I won't pollute the list yet again with details, as they can be found
> at the BSD Forums:
> http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24984
> In a nutshell, no matter what config tool I use, or what settings I
> come up with, when I startx I get a blue and green garbled screen out
> from which I can't exit.
> 
> I've been fighting with this for weeks now and I'm at the end of my
> rope.  A few people have had some ideas, which I've tried with little
> result.  As I'm on the cusp of deciding to reformat the whole $#@&%
> thing and start over after a multitude of struggling (with other
> components as well), I'm open to any and all ideas.
> 


Have you tried it without dri and glx? I had a similar problem with my 
laptop integrated intel video and xorg running Gentoo Linux. It turns 
out that my particular card is very poorly supported by the latest xorg 
(6.8.0) but worked with 6.7.0. Now it still works but only if I don't 
allow those two modules to load, even though 'X -configure' detected the 
capability. By commenting out dri and glx from xorg.conf I've been able 
to use it, albeit without 3d acceleration.

In any event, pretty simple thing to try. Post back whether it works or not.

Cheers,

EB