configuring video card<MSI ATI Radeon RX1550-TD256EH>

[Robert Noland]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 18:01 -0500, f-thomas1 at hvcc.edu wrote:
> hey, 
> i'm using the above card with a new install of freebsd 7.0. when i ran Xorg -configure the driver came back as "vesa". however after a couple of crashes, i suspect that it may not be good to leave it this way. i loaded the (ati) wrapper and got this: 
>  
> xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.1474 
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "xxx.nycap.rr.com:0" in "list" command 
> xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "xxx.nycap.rr.com:0" in "add" command 
>  
> 
> X.Org X Server 1.4.0 
> Release Date: 5 September 2007 
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD xxx.nycap.rr.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 
> Build Date: 13 February 2008  05:50:12PM 

7.0 Release won't support this card, or at least not with drm.  You at
least need to update your ports collection and rebuild.  That should at
least get you a radeon driver that will work with this card.

You will need to update to -STABLE to get working drm.

robert.

>  
>  Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org 
>  to make sure that you have the latest version. 
> Module Loader present 
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, 
>  (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, 
>  (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. 
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Mar  6 16:45:21 2009 
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" 
> (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found 
> (EE) No devices detected. 
>  
> Fatal server error: 
> no screens found 
> XIO:  fatal IO error 53 (Software caused connection abort) on X server ":0.0" 
>  
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. 
>  
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "xxx.nycap.rr.com:0" in "remove" command 
>  
> now this is my first video card... and after reading the manpage for "radeon" the only thing which might help is: 
>  
>        The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to  initialize 
>        the  card.   However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can 
>        specify: 
>  
>            VideoRam - in kilobytes 
>            MemBase  - physical address of the linear framebuffer 
>            IOBase   - physical address of the MMIO registers 
>            ChipID   - PCI DEVICE ID 
>  
> okay, maybe i could write in the relevant info in xorg.conf, but other than VideoRam, i wouldn't know where to start. and i'm not even sure if the bloody card is supported since i didn't see it on the manpage... any help at all that's pertinent would be appreciated. thanks in advance. 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net>
2 Hip Networks
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