Re: FreeBSD-Current and XFree86

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:00, James Tanis wrote:
>          Attempted this, first did a deinstall of XFree86-Server and then 
> built/installed XFree86-Server-snap. It built and installed perfectly fine, 
> from what I can see it runs fine too.. but I get the same error. You 
> weren't wrong, in the log once of the supported cards listed is the ATI 
> Radeon 9800 NH (AGP), although I have no idea what the NH stands for. The 
> only problem is I'm getting the same exact error I was previously..
> 
>  From the log file:
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
> (EE) No devices detected.
> 
>          I did not attempt any different settings from the norm at this 
> time since, if my memory serves me right this is the same exact error I was 
> getting before and nothing I tried seemed to fix it. Here is the device 
> section as it is now for my radeon 9800, these are the same settings that I 
> used to use and worked perfectly fine with my radeon 7000, although I have 
> tried a config without the extra options it did not seems to help nor is 
> their any reason that I can think of that these options would not work with 
> the 9800.
> 
> Section "Device"
>      Identifier  "Radeon 9800"
>      Driver      "radeon"
>      #VideoRam    131072
>      # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
>      Option      "AGPMode"               "4"
>      Option      "AGPFastWrite"  "1"
>      Option      "EnablePageFlip"        "1"
> EndSection
> 
>          My problems seem to stem from the fact that the driver has no idea 
> what to do with BusID PCI 1:0:1 which may or may not be the actual device 
> that I want to be using.. I have no idea what to do about it though. This 
> is a plain vanilla ATI Radeon 9800 (AGP) not a pro or some other 
> upgraded/downgraded version.. I would think this would be supported by the 
> driver.
> Thanks again for any input, James.
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:12 PM 10/23/2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:59, James Tanis wrote:
> > >          I'm having problems with XFree86 that result from the fact that
> > > the ATI Radeon 9800 is not supported by the current 4.3.0 radeon driver. I
> > > would like to upgrade to current/cvs version of XFree86, 4.3.99 since the
> > > next release isn't going to be for around another 2 months. My question 
> > is,
> > > what is the most flawless way to do this? Is there a FreeBSD concentric
> > > repository, or should I just get the sources from the standard XFree86 cvs
> > > repository? Is there a place where I can instead get frequently updated
> > > ports of the repository? Building from source is there any configure
> > > switches that I need to successfully build? Last but not least is it
> > > possible to build only the radeon drivers and use those in 4.3.0.. if so,
> > > how do I go about doing that? I had some problems when I only downloaded
> > > the graphics drivers module.
> > > Thanks for any
> >
> >Please use XFree86-4-Server-snap if you are looking for CVS X Server.
> >The snap is slightly out of date due to problems getting 4.2.99.14
> >building (the monolithic nature of XFree86 is a major issue for
> >maintaining these ports), but it should include radeon 9800 support.
> >
> >--
> >Eric Anholt                                eta_at_lclark.edu
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt_at_FreeBSD.org
> >
> >
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> James Tanis
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I may be well out of my league here, but if memory serves you prolly
will require DRI HEAD to run, that or XFree86 CVS.

Maybe Eric knows better, but that's off my recolection with ATI
experience.

Requiring the DRI head, that or you can install the drivers from the
linux distro, and just not the kernel driver for obvious reasons.

I have been known from time to time to use the ATI linux modules in
FreeBSD, works quite well actually.

Just a thought for you to try.  You'll either have it work, or maybe a
hard lock or no luck.

50/50

Scott