XFree86 woes

[Matthias Pirstitz]

Hi all,

I'm new to FreeBSD, so please bear with me :)

I have a Fujitsu Amilo-D notebook with a Radeon Mobility M9 card, and
when I try to start X, it crashes with "Caught signal 11.  Server
aborting".

There are no other error messages, only the following warning:
"RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum".

I tried both FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8.

It worked in FreeBSD 4.8 until I portupgraded everything (I also tried
xfree86-4-server-snap).

I can get X to start if I use the vga driver instead of the ati driver
(but then again, I'd like to use a resolution higher than 320x200 :).

Before, I had debian on the notebook and used the experimental XFree 4.3
packages without problems, so I guess it should somehow work...

These are the last lines of the XFree86 log file:
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is
0x0000
(II) RADEON(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
(**) RADEON(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps)
(==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 565
(II) RADEON(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a
(II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was already
clear
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already
clear
(WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf (AGP)" (ChipID =
0x4c66) 
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xd0000000
(--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xffcf0000
(--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0xffcc0000
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xffcf0000,0x80000) was already
clear
(--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)   
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xffcf0000,0x80000) was already
clear
(II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect
(II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
(II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string:
\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff
(II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535

   *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
   *** be the reason for the server aborting.

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

TIA for any help,
Matthias