Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7

[Jacques Fourie]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Gary Jennejohn
<gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008 11:55:03 +0200
>
> "Jacques Fourie" <jacques.fourie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net> wrote:
>  > > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:19 +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote:
>  > >  > I tried the radeon driver but somehow couldn't get it to work. If I
>  > >  > start X the screen displays some strange looking artifacts :). I'll
>  > >  > give it another go - I'll definitely prefer running the radeon driver
>  > >  > if possible.
>  > >
>  > >  What does pciconf -lv show for your hardware?
>  > >
>  > >  robert.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Here is the relevant output from pciconf.
>  >
>  > vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x0934103c chip=0x56531002
>  > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>  >     vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>  >     device     = 'Mobility Radeon X700'
>  >     class      = display
>  >     subclass   = VGA
>  >
>  > I tried version 6.8.0 of the radeon driver as well as 6.7.196. I also
>  > tried various Xorg config settings such as specifying mode lines and
>  > sync ranges but no luck.
>  >
>
>  I don't know whether this helps, but the radeon man page states that the
>  driver supports the X700, but not necessarily the mobility version.
>  I don't know whether the M26 PCIE is the mobility version or not.
>
>  Linux users seem to have lots of problems with this chip too, as revealed
>  by a quick google search.
>
>  ---
>  Gary Jennejohn
>

The X700 in my notebook is the mobility version, so I guess that's why
the radeon driver doesn't work for me.