Working fglrx driver on FreeBSD-7

[Jacques Fourie]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:19 -0400, Robert Noland wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>  Ok, I'm being a little slow this morning.  What sort of artifacts?  Can
>  you show an xorg log with the radeon driver?
>
>  robert.
>
>
>
>  > > >  > >
>  > > >  > >  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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Usually When X starts I see red and white lines at the top of the
display. I can start xterms and see the mouse cursor change when I
move the mouse over them but nothing else. I say usually because I
just booted the notebook into FreeBSD after using Windows on it and
now I see remnants from my Windows session on the display.

I'll put my Xorg log somewhere and post a link.

Jacques