ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

[doug at safeport.com]

As to good ideas Ronnie, I do not think so, but here are some things you may not
have tried:

Since you found me you probably have already gone the Google route but if you
have not try your exact configuration. Try the FreeBSD mobile and hardware
lists. Freshports may help with Xorg as well as XFree86

XFree86 has the advantage of better documentation about bugs, at least
currently.  Try their resource page. The development snapshots list pretty
specifically what was fixed in each snapshot. You can download binaries for
FreeBSD and these are pretty quick to install (10-15 mins after the first
one). The XFree86 newbie list is pretty helpful; subscribe and post your
question there.

If any of the above works, I would then drop back to 4.11 unless you do not mind
using ports (rather than packages). My Unix workstations and laptops are far too
slow to consider building X or KDE.

BTW if the above is wrong I would sure like to be clued in. Aside from the fact
that the packages are built with Xorg, some of the low level dependencies have
mutually exclusive version dependencies. Portupgrade may allow the use of
packages by rewriting the dependencies. I would think Xorg and XFree are still
compatible at the BPI level. Because of processor speed I can start from scratch
and build my laptop 4-5 times before Qt would finish building.

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Ronny Fischer wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I have updatet to
> xorg-server-6.8.1_1 X.Org X server and related programs via FreeBSD
> Ports..
>
> ..but it is still not possible to get more the 8 bit color on the sony
> c1ve.
> the vesa driver is fine in 640x480 but it is not possible to have it
> with 1024x480 on this machine...
>
> any other ideas ?
> could it work with xfree86 instead of xorg ?
>
> thanx a lot,
> HAVE FUN and
> with my best regardz
> ronny
>
>
>
> Am 08.01.2005 um 18:14 schrieb doug at safeport.com:
>
> Thanks Joe I will try to upgrade. My experience was the same, in that the
> problem tracked X (both projects) across several levels of 4.x and 5.x.
>
> The vesa drive works okay, but I miss the larger screen and better font
> rendering.
>
>
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Joe Altman wrote:
>
> > Doug, Ronny...
> >
> > I'm running 4.11 with xorg 6.8.1, built from source on December 28, 2004
> > using a Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x on an IBM ThinkPad A20m. I have a default
> > depth of 24 bits, and a resolution of 1024x768. I am using the ati driver.
> >
> > Ronny: I see that the query is for 5.3, but I thought that perhaps my
> > experience would indicate that the ATI chip seems to work fine w/ the most
> > recent version of xorg; or rather, the source as it existed on December
> > 28th.
> >
> > Doug: I remember that you and I encountered the same issue, back in
> > September or thereabouts, WRT the ATI chip? I'm happy to report what is
> > above: it seems to be safe to use the ati driver w/ the newest source for
> > xorg and the chip in question.
> >
> > HTH, best regards,
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
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> mit aemae Gruaess
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