State of support for Radeon X200M on FreeBSD?

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Sat Jan 13 04:09:46 PST 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 07:18 +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> After the recent threads about ATI support here on the list I would like
> to inquire about the status of X support for the X200M on FreeBSD.
> 
> Background: I have a ThinkPad R51e with this integrated chip, and when I
> tried to install 7.0-CURRENT and the 6.9 version of xorg from ports, the
> radeon driver failed to work. All it did was to switch the screen into
> graphics mode and then there it stayed, completely black (with
> occasional blurred greenish lines in some cases) and it was not possible
> to get either a working X display or a text console back. The machine
> did not freeze, it was possible to use it remotely, in fact it even
> reacted to keys pressed on the keboard, only the screen was unusable
> until a reboot. The vesa(4) driver worked of course, but I would like to
> have xvideo and 2D acceleration support if possible. (I am aware that 3D
> accel does not work on these chips yet except for the fglrx driver) 
> 
> Later I tried an Ubuntu live CD that came with xorg 7.1.1 and also used
> the radeon driver, and the X display worked there.
> 
> So my question is: is it something that I am doing wrong, or does the
> X200M really not work with the radeon driver in the xorg port that we
> have now (either on RELENG_6 or HEAD) If it does not work now, is this
> likely different in the new modular xorg version that is up for testing?
> 
> The X200M is rather frequently found in modern laptops, so I hope that
> people have some experience...

I have no experience with that chipset, however Xorg 6.9 is very old
these days.  You may want to try using the Modular Xorg ports tree.  The
directions are here:

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg

Adam




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