On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 08:01 -0400, PJ wrote: > Is it possible there is some problem with xorg 7.4 on FreeBSD 7.2 > running on an amd64 Turion portable. The error seems to be "no vga > module" "no screens found" no drivers available. > The default configuration shows the driver choses as "vesa" by ATI > technologies "Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)" > The dmesg.boot shows the driver as vga, generic. > I have read all the documentation I could find and it appears that this > particular configuration is not supported by FreeBSD...i.e. there is no > reference to Radeon or X700 in their hardware listing. But what about Xorg? > It is rather strange, but in my adventure in installing this stuff, at > one point I was getting something of a screen running but there seemed > to be a problem with a mouse or something like that... don't recall... > but it seemed to me that it should be possilbe to make this beastie work. > In my latest and greatest effort, I have installed everything from > sources, but the driver is forced to be a vesa driver by xorg when the > ordinary non-X screen boot-up indicates the driver as being vga... > somebody has got things rather crossed up? > What do we do now? > TIA > PJ
That hardware should work fine. I expect that you didn't have the radeon (xf86-video-ati) driver installed when you made the configuration. robert. > -- > Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Jourdan --- [email protected] > http://www.ptahhotep.com > http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg -- Robert Noland <[email protected]> 2Hip Networks _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
