Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7

[Robert Noland]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:50 +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote:
> 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

The drm drivers at least should correctly recognize this card, at least
in -current.  xf86-video-ati 6.8.0 should also properly recognize this
chip.  Are you saying that it isn't being recognized by the driver, or
that it doesn't function properly once it is probed?

robert.

> >  >
> >  > 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.
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