On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Bill Swingle wrote: > Hello,
> I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with. > I've been using XFree86 3.3.6 on my Sony Vaio PCG-FXA59 (FX705 in > europe) for about 5 months now and after a harddrive crash am back > restoring the whole machine. > This laptop has what purports to be a ATI 3D Rage Mobility-M1 graphics > chip in it. It's supposed to be able to do 1400x1050. I was able to do > this resolution at 16bpp with 3.3.6 but it was slow as mud when moving > windows, etc. > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE today and along with that came > XFree86 4.2.1. Dmesg from the OS is here: > http://dub.net/vaio/dmesg > Running "XFree86 -configure" renders this file: > http://dub.net/vaio/XF86Config-4.2.1 > Running "XFree86 -xf86config path/to/XF86Config-4.2.1" creates this > madness on the screen: > http://dub.net/vaio/screen.jpg > Here's the 3.3.6 config that actually sorta worked: > http://dub.net/vaio/XF86Config-3.3.6 > As a side note before composing this email I checked out xf-4_2_99_3 and > tried to build it but the build died all three times I tried. The > world.log has crazy binary output at the bottom of it. Anyone that wants > to look at that can find it here: http://dub.net/vaio/world.log.gz > I'm going to attempt to build the newly tagged 4.2.99.4 and I'll repost > if I have any luck with that. That's a good idea. If that doesn't work, re-run the server with -logverbose 4 and send me the (large) log. Just curious: which SVGA driver does 3.3.6 pick? Thanks. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
