Subject: Re: XFree86 4.5.0 vs. Radeon X300
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Gonieaux?= <fgonieaux@free.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/13/2005 21:26:59
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>>uname -a
> 
> NetBSD tiger 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (GENERIC) #6: Wed Aug 31 17:00:56 CEST 2005  ignatios@tangens:/usr/local/sources/3.0/oi/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
> 
> 
>>grep -i radeon /var/run/dmesg.boot 
> 
> vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon X300 Series (rev. 0x00)
> ATI Technologies Radeon X300 Series Secondary (miscellaneous display) at pci1 dev 0 function 1 not configured
> 
> X -configure creates a file that uses Driver "vesa". Driver "radeon" doesn't
> recognize the board. 
> 
> While it works fine for the analog output, I can't get it to drive
> the LCD through the digital cable in more than 1024x768 ... any idea?
> 

It won't help you with XFree, but FYI I've got a Radeon X300 too and
it works fine with X.org.

IIRC It could display in 1280x1024 using vesa with XFree 4.5 but
I switched to X.org as the vertical refresh was really too low.