VESA driver in X

[Greg J.]

techsupport at thejemreport.com wrote:

> Anyone know why there is no VESA driver in XFree86, or when one will be
> available? That's the only one that I can get working with my Radeon 9800 (in
> the i386 build). The VGA driver is not usable.
> 
> -Jem

My 9800Pro works fine on my FreeBSD/amd64 machine with XFree86 4.3.0's 
vesa driver. I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Card0"
	Driver		"vesa"
	VendorName	"ATI"
	BoardName	"Radeon 9800 Pro"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection