Hello, You may wish to run xfree86cfg again and step through the setup. When it asks you for a video card, select any ATI card (we'll change this later) and continue on through the setup of X. Once you have the config saved, go into the config and change the driver from "ati" to "radeon" and that should load the radeon drivers. I am running both RC1 and RC2 (as well as 2 5.0-CURRENT machines cvsup'd from RC2) all of which are running X and KDE (they're workstations for friends) and Im not having any issues using a radeon 7500 (or 7000-powered by ati) and the rest are authentic ATI cards. If you have any questions, lemmie know.
Regards, -Nick "Harm" Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: X hangups using radeon driver > I downloaded a 5.0-RC2 ISO, checked the MD5 against a different mirror's > MD5, burned a CD, diff'ed the CD against the ISO, and installed the OS. > My first try using the full-GUI X installer failed gracefully (I forget > the details). The other two X installers didn't offer to support my > video card, so I tried the full-GUI one again. It offered something > called "ati". I'm not sure why it said "ati" rather than what my old > XF86Config used "radeon", but it seemed close enough. IIRC, it wasn't > and I copied over my old XF86Config. Starting X several times after > reboots, it would hang up after 30-120 (?) seconds of use. Sometimes > ctrl-alt-bs would kill X and sometimes it would require a hard reboot. > > I did "portupgrade -R XFree86" (after installing my old make.conf which > has "CFLAGS= -O -pipe" and "CPUTYPE=k6-2") and still had the problem. > > I then did a source cvsup (tag=".") and rebuilt world and kernel using > well-tested steps. X has not since hung up in about two days (several > hours of activity). > > CPU : AMD K6-2 500MHz with 128 MB RAM. > Video : Hightech Information Systems' "Excalibur" (Radeon 7000 with TV-OUT) > > FreeBSD boot msg: pci1: <ATI model 5159 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 > XFree86 4.2.0 says: ATI Radeon VE QY rev 0 (AGP); framebuffer bpp 32; > ChipID = 0x5159; VideoRAM=65536kB; 64-bit DDR SDRAM > > > I have a free partition to do some debugging if there's something I can > do in a few hours. I'm no C hacker, but am willing to mess with a > debugger a bit. I know how to set up for crash dumps, but that's > probably not much help here. Maybe the fact that it works after a cvsup > means -RC3 will not hang up, but that's just guessing; maybe my > "CPUTYPE=K6-2" fixed it. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
