xorg-7.2.r3_3 on current/amd64 with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 11 02:00:59 PST 2007


So I know the chance I get this working at this time
is slim to none, but still. xorg-6.9 works flawlessly,
but only 2d is accelerated.

Now with 7.2... I compiled xorg-server without aiglx.
I tried to start xorg with/without most modules. But
every time it just displays a blank white screen -
and that's it. Also, no matter whether dri/glx/GLcore
is loaded or not there's a message in the log about
direct rendering being disabled. I can switch back to
text consoles, and I can Ctrl-Alt-Backspace out of
xorg with no ill effects - but that's about all func-
tionality I get.

Stas, I remember you had some solution for a Radeon
adapter on your notebook. It's probably not 1100, but
still if you have a minute, could you remind me what
you did then?

Thanks!

P.S. being sick of getting the only suggestion from
Google searches - to use fglrx proprietary drivers,
I'm now close to understanding Net/OpenBSD people
trying to get 3d from nVidia cards and ending up
with a crapload of "switch to FreeBSD" advice.


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