Re: Acer Aspire AS5672 - Xorg crashes with radeonhd driver - how to fix?

Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:07:18 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 
> > I'm doing more testing on this old laptop: Acer Aspire AS5672[1].
> > The machine has a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 gfx chip / card:
> > root@kg-home# pciconf -lv | grep -A4 vga
> > vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x00941025 chip=0x71c51002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
> >    device     = 'ATI MOBILITY /ATI RADEON X1600 (M56)'
> >    class      = display
> >    subclass   = VGA
> >
> > And 'Xorg -configure' selects the radeonhd driver. Unfortunately, trying to start Xorg with this driver makes Xorg crash.
> 
> The standard radeon driver from xf86-video-ati should support that. 

It does, as described in my original message.

> radeonhd is pretty much dead.

I didn't know that.
In that case, consider this solved.
-- 
Torfinn

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