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PPCLuke

February 19th, 2003, 23:57

I can't get more than 8bpp with my Radeon 7000 in FreeBSD 5.0 I've installed fluxbox and stuff, and actually got it to run... if you need more info just let me know what, and where to find it, I'll get it to you asap.

bsdjunkie

February 20th, 2003, 11:02

I got a 7500 working ok. When I get home from work i can post my config.

PPCLuke

February 20th, 2003, 20:13

alright, that should work out, when I go into configuration it uses the ATI drivers... but they don't sow up on the list if i decide to change it... I know it CAN work, since I had 32bpp in Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1.1, and BSD as a million and a half times better.

PPCLuke

February 23rd, 2003, 23:19

Alright BSDJunkie... how long exactly do you work? :P it's been several days... and not to nag, but I'm getting a little antsy here, I wanna get that box going!

bsdjunkie

February 24th, 2003, 10:59

Sorry, had to work late on Fri, then went home to visit parents over the weekend. Ill do it tonite ;)

PPCLuke

February 25th, 2003, 22:23

and again! you abandon me!

bsdjunkie

February 25th, 2003, 23:36

this is what i based my setup from... it was generated on linux, but by removing the font path and changing mouse device to what you have should work

I couldnt get DRI working, but dont really need it, so i wasnt to upset.

# ************************************************** ********************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# ************************************************** ********************

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
# Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

#Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
#EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "Flat Panel 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 40-70

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync
ModeLine "640x480" 50.00 640 656 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "DPMS"
Option "AGPMode" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

PPCLuke

February 26th, 2003, 03:38

thanks a lot, I'll have to reinstall FreeBSD when I get home from work tomorrow, as it's 2:30 AM and I have to go at 9 :P

PPCLuke

March 2nd, 2003, 23:36

I got a decent depth... (16 bit) but now I need to use the actual Radeon driver... if I edit the XF86Config file to use the radeon driver instead of vesa it just crashes on me...

PPCLuke

March 27th, 2003, 22:39

Well, I'm going to give this thread a bump, because I reinstalled FreeBSD today, and I'd like to get it working, since I found an old ISA hardware modem that I had working in slackware

elmore

March 27th, 2003, 23:30

look it's linux_luke! Welcome back d00d!

PPCLuke

March 28th, 2003, 14:06

yeah, I'm back, I took a break from BSD for a bit...mainly for the reason this thread was created :p
But now that I've had Linux online, I liked it, and I want to try out some of the ports, but in order to do that, I have to get some kind of window manager running...