Xorg 6.8.2 not working with ATI mobile radeon X700 ?

[Tom.Lislegaard at proact.no]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Rehsack Jens (ext) wrote:

> From: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Tom.Lislegaard at proact.no
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:50 PM
> To: freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org; freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> Subject: Xorg 6.8.2 not working with ATI mobile radeon X700 ?
>
> Hi Tom,
>
>> I'm trying to run Xorg on an Acer Travelmate 8104 with this graphics
>> card. Apparently the ATI is not supported by the ati or radeon
>> drivers, but using the vesa driver fails (in libint10 I suppose) with
>>
>>  	(EE) VESA(0): Set VBE Mode failed!
>>
>> The complete Xorg.log is listed below.
>> Is anyone else having problems with ATI X700 in vesa mode?
>
> On my Laptop the VESA mode works fine. But I've experienced some
> problems
> with resolutions higher than 1024x786. I didn't study your log deep into
> the
> last detail - maybe you attach next time your xorg.conf.
>

Thanks Jens, that's right on the spot. The server chokes on the default
resolution selected. (I autoconfigured the server and didn't think
about setting a reasonable Modes line).

It seems to work more or less up to at least 1400x1050.
('more or less' as certain settings show various visual artifacts,
1280x1024 is particularly bad for instance).

-tom

>> Another question, is it possible to run ATI's linux driver with
>> my setup?
>
> Did you google for it?
>
> Jens
>