[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> as you can see it is XFree86 version 4.1.0 running on FreeBSD 4.5.

Ah, something familiar.  Good!

> scanpci reports this:
> 
> pci bus 0x1 cardnum 0x00 function 0x0000: vendor 0x1002 device 0x5446
>  ATI  Device unknown

Not so good.

How does it show up in dmesg?  My guess is that your video board is a
brand new chipset and 4.1.0 doesn't know about "device 0x5446".  Maybe
4.2.0 knows more about it.  I'm about to embark on that upgrade myself,
I'll post my experiences probably tonight or tomorrow morning.

Of course, since I don't have a "vendor 0x1002 device 0x5446" my results
won't be perfectly relevant to you.

I just thought of something.  I'll bet that if XFree86 4.2.0 knows about
that device ID, then the 4.2.0 version of scanpci also knows about it. 
You might want to find out before you download 62.5 Megabytes.  If you
can't get the 4.2.0 scanpci somewhere else, contact me off list and I'll
send it to you.

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