On 09/13/10 18:04, Eivind E wrote:

Tried to substitute the driver with ati and loading radeon.ko (which
automatically loaded drm.ko) and had the same results as the plain
radeon driver. X starts up once in a while, but the screen goes
to about half of normal brightness and the view is moved down and to the
right.


You could try experimenting with the AccelMethod option. I've got a newer gpu, but this is what is working for me with a 4200 + freebsd 8.1 at work.

...

Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dri2"
EndSection

...

(for the card)

        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
        Option          "AccelMethod" "exa"
        Option  "DRI" "yes"

FreeBSD lholt-desktop.primemediaanalysis.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

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