Robert Noland wrote: > 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 >> Wouf... & duh!... do I feel stupid or what? I installed the minimal xorg files and just plain didn't think... toc...toc...toc... that's the sound of a blunt instrument smacking my forehead... I wonder what else I am missing besides the other part of the brain? Thanks robert btw, I just replied to Adam with snips of my log file... anything there that I should be dealing with... I did notice in my effort to start with "startx" some references to xinit and xauth that were not too promising - but those proggies are installer... oh, well, I'll try starting again & see what pops up... thanks again PJ
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