Xorg and ATI Rage-Mobility (resolved)

[doug at safeport.com]

A fix is in the works for this problem, look for CHANGELOG #133. Hopefully Xorg
will also pick this up.


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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:40:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: xfree86 at XFree86.Org
To: doug at safeport.com
Subject: Re: [XFree86] ATI Rage Mobility AGP 2x with XFree86 4.4

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 doug at safeport.com wrote:

> The XF86Config is attached for reference. I am using FreeBSD 5.3 and trying to
> install XFree86 4.4. I currently am running XFree86 4.3 (so I can write this
> email :)

> The attached file works and has worked with 4.0 - 4.3 of XFree86. On 4.4
> starting xdm yields a black screen with no errors logged to
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log. xdm starts and can be canceled.

> The hardware is a Dell Inspiron 7500 circa 10/99. The problem seems to track the
> ATI Rage Mobility card as another FreeBSD user with the same card on an IBM
> ThinkPad is having the same symptoms.

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> Is this a know problem? I could not find it in the active bug list. Any work
> around-s?

This should be fixed as of 4.4.99.7, specifically CHANGELOG #133.  There are no
workarounds.

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