Here is what dmesg says:
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0

I will upgrade to 4.2 if it will work, thanks! =)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Spradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Newbie]ATI Xpert 128 Not Working


> [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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