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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a
FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Tue May 3
22:40:03 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) VESA(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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...
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