Xorg 6.8.2 not working with ATI mobile radeon X700 ?

Rehsack Jens (ext) jens.rehsack.ext at siemensvdo.com
Mon Oct 31 00:53:02 PST 2005


> From: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Luckie
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:03 AM
> To: Tom.Lislegaard at proact.no
> Cc: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.2 not working with ATI mobile radeon X700 ?
> 
> I have an X700 PCI-e in a desktop PC.  I put a ChipID entry in
xorg.conf
> to get mine to work.  It looks like:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "Unknown Board"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>         ChipID       0x4a49
> EndSection

I can't approve that. On my laptop X dies with signal 11 when I try
that,
as well as it does without the overridden ChipID.

Maybe it's because my kernel doesn't detect any agp bridge (I know it's
PCI-e)
nor the drm get's loaded.

Jens


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