Video Card Compatibility
Thank you to all of you for your recent help on FreeBSD. While on vacation last week, I decided to buy an ATI Radeon 9000 video card thinking it's got to work. Well I can't get it to work and can't find it on the list of cards during install. In fact no ATI cards seem to be listed. I should of brought that list with me. Did I buy an incompatible card I did notice on the video card config page one line had something like pci:1.0.1.. I know my card goes in an AGP slot not PCI. I was successful in installing Fedoro Linux yesterday! Thanks again for your great support!! Brad - Original Message - From: Michael Challis To: bradford fligor Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Video card compatibility bradford fligor wrote: Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 I also have an old monitor but I don't think that's the problem. Will I need to buy a separate video card and if so would you have any suggestions? Thank you very much for your help!! Brad Fligor 508-627-4862 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Knoppix Live linux CD will probably identify the card or a Quick Windows 98 install. It is helpful to have the information from another OS concerning hardware before installing a new one. Good luck with the youngster. 4.9 is probably a better way to go. Just download the first CD to install. MC ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Card Compatibility
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:06 am, bradford fligor wrote: Thank you to all of you for your recent help on FreeBSD. While on vacation last week, I decided to buy an ATI Radeon 9000 video card thinking it's got to work. Well I can't get it to work and can't find it on the list of cards during install. In fact no ATI cards seem to be listed. I should of brought that list with me. Did I buy an incompatible card I did notice on the video card config page one line had something like pci:1.0.1.. I know my card goes in an AGP slot not PCI. I was successful in installing Fedoro Linux yesterday! Thanks again for your great support!! Brad Both FreeBSD and Linux use XFree86 for its X Window environment. Video card compatibility is handled by XFree86. So, whether you're using Linux or one or FreeBSD, it might be good to bookmark the following page: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status.html For future purchases, it's also good to know that NVIDIA creates drivers for both Linux and FreeBSD. This has made my purchasing decisions very easy. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Card Compatibility
The ATI Radeon 9000 does work. I have the 64mb model and had it working correctly in 4.8 Stable and 4.9 release with DRI enabled. I didn't get a chance to test linux games on it, but the native X11 client/server worked great. It really sped up KDE. I also got a Rage 128 AGP working prior to the radeon. Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'I try to think but nothing happens' -- Homer Jay Simpson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Card Compatibility
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:06:51 -0500, bradford fligor wrote: While on vacation last week, I decided to buy an ATI Radeon 9000 video card thinking it's got to work. Well I can't get it to work and can't find it on the list of cards during install. In fact no ATI cards seem to be listed. I should of brought that list with me. Did I buy an incompatible card I did notice on the video card config page one line had something like pci:1.0.1.. I know my card goes in an AGP slot not PCI. The card is fine. In fact, it is probably an excellent choice. It is just barely old enough (i.e. out of production long enough :-) that all recent versions of XFree86 should have no trouble with it. Even though it is not one of the fastest cards available, it will almost certainly be more than fast enough for any of your applications. The XFree86 configuration file should specify the radeon driver in the video card Device Section. You don't have to be more specific. I don't recall how you do this when running the various XFree86 configuration programs. Don't worry about the pci:1.0.1 in the configuration file. An AGP slot is in a very practical sense just a mutated PCI slot. (long story) In particular, AGP devices have PCI device addresses. Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card compatibility
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. Good choice. Get him started right. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 Well, it doesn't say what the video chipset is - just 3d graphics engine. But on the drivers download page there is a Via four-in-one driver for Windows. On the specs page the motherboard is identified as using the Via KM266/8235 chipset. After a bit more googling and rummaging, it looks to me as though this is an onboard Via/S3 Savage 8. So try the S3 Savage driver. If that doesn't work, say so and I'll rummage again. HTH. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card compatibility
Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:10:37PM -0500, bradford fligor wrote: I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 I also have an old monitor but I don't think that's the problem. Will I need to buy a separate video card and if so would you have any suggestions? If your system is up and running, you should post the results of the command 'pciconf -lv' and 'dmesg' This should tell us what type of hardware you have (perhaps give yourself enough of a hint) As others on the list have suggested, 4.9 or 5.2.1 might be better version choices. Regards, Tony ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Video card compatibility
Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 I also have an old monitor but I don't think that's the problem. Will I need to buy a separate video card and if so would you have any suggestions? Thank you very much for your help!! Brad Fligor 508-627-4862 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card compatibility
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, bradford fligor wrote: Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 I also have an old monitor but I don't think that's the problem. Will I need to buy a separate video card and if so would you have any suggestions? Well, that site does not tell us what kind of video card it is exactly. Open the case and look for the video card chip. Write down that information. As for your monitor you will need basic information about it also. Horz and Vert freq range. What resolution can it do? hopefully something like 1024x756... There are 3 different programs that will help configure X. all 3 can be accessed from /stand/sysinstall program. This is often difficult for new people to nix. Send us this info and we can help determine what driver you need to use. m Thank you very much for your help!! Brad Fligor 508-627-4862 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card compatibility
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 02:10 pm, bradford fligor wrote: Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 I also have an old monitor but I don't think that's the problem. Will I need to buy a separate video card and if so would you have any suggestions? Thank you very much for your help!! Brad Fligor 508-627-4862 Brad, Do you now, or have you ever, used FreeBSD? If not, please do not give FreeBSD 5.1 to your 10 year-old son. Please download 4.9 from the servers or wait for FreeBSD 5.2.1. If you do not have an adequate internet connection for such a download, you can purchase the cd's online, or contact me off-list. FreeBSD 5.1 was not released for production use. FreeBSD is a wonderful operating system. It would be a shame if your son's first experience with FreeBSD was unnecessarily frustrating. As for the video card: I could not identify the onboard video chip at the web page indicated above. On other Albatron pages, I noted that they sell video cards with nVidia chips. If this holds true for the motherboard, you probably have a compatible card; athough you may need to skip the graphical configuration step until you can identify the card. Once the operating system is installed, there are various ways to detect the card identity if it is known to the kernel or to XFree86. For more information, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html which you can also find in the handbook. Although we are volunteers (not a Support Department), we are happy to help. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card compatibility
Hello Support ! I bought FreeBSD 5.1 and Handbook for my 10 year old computer nut son for Christmas and have had problems installing the full graphical version. Good choice. Get him started right. When asked for video card on installation, I don't' know what to select. I have on-board video on the motherboard at this site. http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=35 I also have an old monitor but I don't think that's the problem. Will I need to buy a separate video card and if so would you have any suggestions? I hope someone who knows more than I about this subject also responds. But, to figure out what to put for video card and driver, etc I use three sources and I usually have to pore over all of them and combine the information. I try to get as much information from the vendor/manufacturer as possible. Usually their web pages have something useful. I dig through the dmesg output until I think I have figured out which lines refer to the video stuff. I go to the Xfree86 support web site and go through their lists. That is probably the most complete source because it is really XFree86 that is talking to your video card anyway. The Xfree86 page is: http://www.xfree86.org/support.html Then do some serious digging. jerry Thank you very much for your help!! Brad Fligor 508-627-4862 ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
