Re: FreeBSD-Current and XFree86

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 00:13, Thomas Schwarzkopf wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 02:00, James Tanis wrote:
> 
> >  From the log file:
> > (II) Primary Device is: 
> > (--) 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
> 
> Have you tried adding a line like this
> 
> BusID    "PCI 01:00:0"
> 
> to Section "Device"? Maybe also try "PCI 1:0:1"
> I had the same error with a different card and this helped.

Actually, the problem here (as I just replied in a private email) was
that that card is newer than 4.2.99.12's radeon support, so it didn't
probe the radeon.  Solution I suggested was to try chipid 0x4e48 because
his is 0x4e49, which is the same generation of chip.

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