Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (222 mails)

[Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx>]

Nick Curry writes:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for developing the RadeonHD driver, which opens up the world 
> of modern laptops to FreeBSD users. I'd like to report an 
> unsupported yet card: Radeon Mobility HD 3470. The laptop is
> ASUS F7Se.
>
> The driver doesn't detect this card (there's no signature in  
> rhd_id.c), and adding one there doesn't solve the problem: running startx or 
> xdm renders the screen blank. Connecting an external 
> monitor helped me see that all the X-related stuff actually 
> starts up and works properly, the only issue being the blank 
> laptop screen (I can't tell if it's still in text mode or not). However the 
> external monitor (LCD Viewsonic 18") gets initialized properly and 
> works fine. I just had to disable the Panel section in xorg.conf to pretend 
> the external monitor is the only one.


> From your log file:

(II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.1, built from dist of git branch master, commit 
761940fd

This is a rather old version of the driver please try a newer one from the
git repo. Check http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd how to build it.

Cheers,
        Egbert.
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