Re: Acer Aspire AS5672 - Xorg crashes with radeonhd driver - how to fix?
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"