On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:12, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > I was fooling around today with a clean install of FreeBSD, and thought > I'd give it a try. I added the device ID for my radeon 9800 to the > radeon_drv.c file, and recompiled the radeon kernel module. It loads > fine... I modified my XF86Config-4 file and set the ChipID in my Device > section to "0x4242" (Radeon 8500 of some sort). > > X starts, and the following shows up in my X log file:
[...] > Unfortunately, nothing displays on my monitor. It just blanks. The > machine doesn't lock up, as I can still ssh in, so that may just be > something easily fixed (I haven't messed around with it since then). The black screen may indeed just be due to differences between how the 2D driver treats a 8500 and a 9800, which you could get around by commenting out the check which disables direct rendering for R300 cards instead of overriding the chip ID. The R300 may also need a different CP microcode though, what you experience may be the R200 microcode locking it up. (Does the X server react to clients trying to connect, or is it hogging the CPU maybe?) > Is this worth pursuing? Can anyone definatively say nothing positive is > going to come from this? AFAIK the R300 3D engine is completely different, so I doubt the r200 3D driver would give any useful results even if you managed to pass the previous hurdles. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
