Xorg 6.8.2 not working with ATI mobile radeon X700 ?

Rehsack Jens (ext) jens.rehsack.ext at siemensvdo.com
Thu Oct 27 05:26:38 PDT 2005


From: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
Tom.Lislegaard at proact.no
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:50 PM
To: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org; freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
Subject: Xorg 6.8.2 not working with ATI mobile radeon X700 ?

Hi Tom,

> I'm trying to run Xorg on an Acer Travelmate 8104 with this graphics
> card. Apparently the ATI is not supported by the ati or radeon
> drivers, but using the vesa driver fails (in libint10 I suppose) with
>
>  	(EE) VESA(0): Set VBE Mode failed!
>
> The complete Xorg.log is listed below.
> Is anyone else having problems with ATI X700 in vesa mode?

On my Laptop the VESA mode works fine. But I've experienced some
problems
with resolutions higher than 1024x786. I didn't study your log deep into
the
last detail - maybe you attach next time your xorg.conf.

> Another question, is it possible to run ATI's linux driver with
> my setup?

Did you google for it?

Jens


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