-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, XFree86 4.3.99.902 was checked out from CVS on 17/01/04 and compiled. The hardware is described in more detail in the attached files, but basically I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200 8x with 256MB RAM, on a motherboard for AMD chipsets, which has nvidea bridges. With the version of XFree86 that ships with FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, the machine would hang if I tried to use the radeon driver, and manually specify a ChipID in the appropriate Device section. The VESA driver works, but the refresh rate is unusable, and would be a waste of this card's capacity. After installing the latest version of XFree86, the machine would no longer hang, but was subject to a different problem; upon issuing the command xinit, the X would load but the display showed the canonical messed up graphics screen, i.e "all the colours of the rainbow". I was able to exit X by moving the mouse, which could still be seen, to the default xterm that is opened in the top left hand corner, and then typing exit. If one tried to switch to another console using CTRL-ALT-F1 for example, the screen remained garbled. I tried just about every possible ChipID that might work, see attached XF86Config file for details, but exactly the same thing happened. I typed in: glxinfo > My.glxinfo At the invisible xterm when the screen was garbled, and upon subsequent examination, it showed that direct rendering was enabled. So basically I am now stymied, I tried everything within my knowledge, and more. I've tried searching everywhere. I noticed that quite a few other people had similar problems, but it seems that under RedHat 9, changing the ChipID works, but I haven't tested this myself as I don't run this OS. As you can imagine, this is marginally annoying and dissapointing, as I only just got this machine. I should have checked that the card was supported BEFORE I bought it, but I assumed that radeon would be supported since my other machines all have radeons. The PCI entries for Radeon 9200 were missing from /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors, but adding them to it didn't make any difference. But not knowing what that file is for anyway, I wouldn't know whether they were supposed to. Anyway, if anyone can help me try and get this card working, I would greatly appreciate your help. If I can't get it working, then I regret that I will have to sell the card and by a different one. Ideally however, I would like to use this card as it has a nice 256MB Ram, and was good value for money. Regards 0X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Charset: UTF8 Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAkAJGQsACgkQZI2YkNttzRGSMgCgj/z5R080McoJuue+jHCJ7aG22LgA n0p1Fn6C+z/DSzxtI9KGZfUL63WI =UUmD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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