XFree86 and Gnome 2.4

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bin Ren [mailto:br260 at cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 10:12 PM
> To: Stephen Durham
> Cc: AMD64 FreeBSD
> Subject: Re: XFree86 and Gnome 2.4
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can install XFree86 4.3 by binary. But I can only find 'vga' driver 
> to work
> for my ATI Radeon 9600. I tried both 'vesa' and 'ati' but both with 
> error
> 'no screen found. no device driver ...' With 'vga' driver, the 
> resolution is
> formidable '640x480'. Any suggestion for ATI users?
> 
> With 5.2-current i386 version, I use 'vesa' as XFree86 
> version and with
> resolution 1280x1024.
> 
> Thanks
> Bin

Have you tried the radeon driver? There isn't any 3d support for the 9600, but 2D is supposed to work correctly.

I have a 9100 and I had to specify a ChipID in XF86Config to get it to work right - I don't know if this also has to happen with the 9600.

-Will