Torfinn Ingolfsen
2005-May-06 21:26 UTC
Xorg - getting VESA to work on a Radeon Xpress 200?
I have an amd64 machine, it has a RS480M2-IL (aka MS-7093) mainboard (don't ask me what the '-IL' means, I have no idea). I run the FreeBSD 5-stable branch on the machine: root@kg-quiet# uname -a FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Tue May 3 22:40:03 CEST 2005 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET amd64 This mainboard have "ATI Radeon Xpress 200" integrated graphics, which currently isn't supported by any ATI drivers, AFAIK. So I have to use the VESA driver. I run this with Xorg 6.8.2 from ports, using the vesa driver, on an LCD that have 1280x1024 as native resolution. The problem has been that the vesa driver behaves odd; text (any text) is "blurred" (for lack of a better word) so that it is difficult / imposiible to read. Except for that (not so small) problem, Xorg has been working without problems. Recently I noticed that there was a new port; xorg-server-snap (6.8.99.5), so I tried that one. First I tried to autodetect drivers; xorg suggested the 'ati' driver, but that makes a mess of the display. so back to the vesa driver again. And to my joy I discovered that text was crisp and readable again! Nice! But there is one problem: xorg won't do 1280x1024 anymore. The log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) contains this line: (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name) Huh? Earlier on in the log file, it reported: (II) VESA(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) VESA(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) VESA(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) VESA(0): 640x480@67Hz (II) VESA(0): 640x480@72Hz (II) VESA(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) VESA(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) VESA(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) VESA(0): 800x600@75Hz (II) VESA(0): 832x624@75Hz (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@70Hz (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@75Hz (II) VESA(0): 1280x1024@75Hz (II) VESA(0): 1152x870@75Hz The complete Xorg.0.log file is attached. I tried searching on the net (ok, "googling"), but didn't find anything that helped. Any hints on what I can try to fix this? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Xorg.0.log Type: application/octet-stream Size: 83307 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050505/10895093/Xorg.0.obj
On 05/04/05 22:15, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:> I have an amd64 machine, it has a RS480M2-IL (aka MS-7093) mainboard > (don't ask me what the '-IL' means, I have no idea). > I run the FreeBSD 5-stable branch on the machine: > root@kg-quiet# uname -a > FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Tue May 3 > 22:40:03 CEST 2005 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET > amd64 > > This mainboard have "ATI Radeon Xpress 200" integrated graphics, which > currently isn't supported by any ATI drivers, AFAIK. So I have to use > the VESA driver. > I run this with Xorg 6.8.2 from ports, using the vesa driver, on an LCD > that have 1280x1024 as native resolution. The problem has been that the > vesa driver behaves odd; text (any text) is "blurred" (for lack of a > better word) so that it is difficult / imposiible to read. Except for > that (not so small) problem, Xorg has been working without problems. > > Recently I noticed that there was a new port; xorg-server-snap > (6.8.99.5), so I tried that one. First I tried to autodetect drivers; > xorg suggested the 'ati' driver, but that makes a mess of the display. > so back to the vesa driver again. And to my joy I discovered that text > was crisp and readable again! Nice! > But there is one problem: xorg won't do 1280x1024 anymore. > The log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) contains this line: > > (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name) > > Huh? Earlier on in the log file, it reported: > (II) VESA(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: > (II) VESA(0): 720x400@70Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@60Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@67Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@72Hz > (II) VESA(0): 640x480@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 800x600@60Hz > (II) VESA(0): 800x600@72Hz > (II) VESA(0): 800x600@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 832x624@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@60Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@70Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1024x768@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1280x1024@75Hz > (II) VESA(0): 1152x870@75Hz > > The complete Xorg.0.log file is attached. > I tried searching on the net (ok, "googling"), but didn't find anything > that helped. > > Any hints on what I can try to fix this?Support for your chipset was added at the end of March, so it definitely should be in 6.8.99.5: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827 Try the radeon driver. You may get the same results as the ati driver (I think ati is a generic name that gets you radeon, r128, etc.), but radeon is the correct choice. If it doesn't work you should file a bug. I'm not sure how to fix your VESA problem... -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050507/0b5154f5/signature-0001.bin