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IIRC, the architecture of the 9500 and beyond have greatly departed from that of the previous chips, so the Open Radeon driver doesn't (yet, if ever) know how to deal with them (and ATI's not helping any with specs on the chips).

You might have some luck with the vesa (very generic video card interface) but it won't have much in the way of performance.
 
I think I had my 9600 working just fine with the radeon driver built in with X, however there won't be any hardware acceleration. I had KDE working once, but I went back to WindowMaker.

I blew away that install of FreeBSD a while back, returning that machine to Windows-only use, so I can't be much more help than that.
 
[H]exx said:
So...to get to my point, how can I get X configured for my card so that I can start KDE happily? I get an error when starting X (which says it can't open the display) which is related to the wrong driver. I have it set to Ati (generic).
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Have you gone through the X configuration recommeneded by the FreeBSD Handbook?

I have used my ATI 9700 Pro with multi-monitors without too much trouble. If you like, I can post my X configuration file that I use with my ATI 9700 Pro.
 
You don't need to install drivers to get ATi cards working in FreeBSD, I recommend you try doing the X configuration again and make sure all the values are right.
 
Log files should be in /var/log, like God intended. :)

find / -type f -name "XFree86.0.log"

Learn find(1) well. It is your friend. It is one of the most overlooked and neglected unix tools out there, but it's very useful.

As far as starting KDE, how about editing your ~/.xinitrc and adding a line for startkde at the top?

Why are you starting X as root? Don't do that. :) Don't do anything you can do as a regular user as root, and even when you do need to do things as root use su or sudo. I don't think I've ever actually logged in to a FreeBSD box as root except maybe when I have to do things in single-user mode...
 
If you want to be able to use su under FreeBSD, your user will need to be in the wheel group.

The .xinitrc should be in your home directory (that's what the ~ represented). If it's not, create one. Try "man X" if you want to learn more about how X starts and what files it reads when it starts.
 
[H]exx, here is my XF86Config file. I tried to PM you back but the forum said that I was only allowed to post one message per 45 second time period even though I hadn't posted a message originally. :confused: :rolleyes:

Here is my config file that I used to use with my ATI 9700 Pro.

Code: 
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen1" 0 0
        Screen      1  "Screen0" RightOf "Screen1"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
        FontPath     "unix/:7101"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "speedo"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

        #Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true"
        #Option "AllowClosedownGrabs" "true"
        Option      "Xinerama" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "Auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Buttons" "6"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "NEC"
        ModelName    "MultiSync 70"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 82.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
        ModeLine     "1280x1024@85Hz(VESA)" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "ViewSonic"
        ModelName    "PS790"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 82.0
        VertRefresh  40.0 - 150.0
        ModeLine     "1280x1024@85Hz(VESA)" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"

        #ChipId      0x4e441002
        #ChipRev     0x0
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Radeon R300 ND [Radeon 9700]"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
        Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Device"

        #ChipId      0x4e641002
        #ChipRev     0x0
        Identifier  "Card1"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Radeon R300 ND [Radeon 9700]"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
        Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Card1"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

I am currently in the process of compiling KDE on my newly installed FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 machine. I got a cheap Gigabyte FX5200 card for putzing around. I've had decent experience in the past with my GEForce3 Ti 200 and Unreal Tournament 2003.

Wish ATI had drivers for FreeBSD, though. I really like my ATI 9700 Pro.
 
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